I'll just add what I've learned for now.
The kernel video-parameter seems to work for me if I leave out the output from
the line (this is also the experience of at least one other guy I read about on
the #radeonhd IRC channel).
So adding the following line to grub's default kernel parameters
Hi Andy,
Where did you find the above information?
I'm trying to get it working on my computer, so it'd be nice if there was a
place that explained it a bit more in detail.
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Correction not the names from xrandr, but per the outputs listed in
sysfs under /sys/class/drm. in my case I have these files, the connector
names are 'VGA-1' etc:
card0card0-DisplayPort-2 card0-LVDS-1 controlD64
card0-DisplayPort-1 card0-HDMI Type A-1 card0-VGA-1
Seems there is a mechanism. The frambuffer mode selection interface
applies to the DRM connectors. This means that you can sepecify a mode
per output as below on the kernel command line:
video=output:mode
Where output its the name of the output as per xrandr, say VGA1 or LVDS,
and the mode
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