On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 1:46 AM, Michel Dänzer
<daenzer@debian.org> wrote:
On Die, 2012-04-17 at 13:11 -0500, Straight BolognaSandwich wrote:
>
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> Note the maximum is still showing 4096 x 4096 even though I've done
> all I can think of to limit it. I also can drag windows off my screen
> in all four directions.
That's normal, it would be up to the window manager to prevent this.
> IF I remotely understand what is going on, this could also present
> itself as poor video performance in addition to the display
> corruption. It appears that video memory is still being allocated for
> an area of 4096 x 4096.
No. With KMS, video memory is dynamically reallocated for the actual
current screen size, 1280x1024 in this case. That's why the hardware
limits can always be advertised for the maximum size.
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