On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 19:50 +1000, Simon Males wrote:
> Glen, is that a foreseeable feature/change in the Linux kernel? Or is it 
> something that would on benefit Mac Mini users.

The non-BIOS video mode setting code was added to the Intel X.org
driver to support RandR 1.2.  That might work on the Mac Mini --
I haven't tried it yet.

This roadmap
  http://www.x.org/wiki/XDC2007Notes
says
> Desired goals for 7.4 katamari (1.5+ xserver, ~Nov 2007)
> ...
>  - kernel modesetting support 

More at
  http://keithp.com/blog/kernel-mode-drivers.html
  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/531149
  http://burtonini.com/blog/computers/randr-2007-02-06-17-50

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