Hi,
I notice a regression report on Bugzilla [1]. Quoting from it:
Original Summary: absent both plymouth, and video= on linu lines, vtty[1-6] framebuffers produce vast raster right and bottom borders on the larger resolution of two displays
To reproduce: 1-connect two unequal native resolution displays to a Tesla or Firmi GPU 2-don't have plymouth in use (I don't ever have it installed, so don't know whether it impacts) 3-don't include e.g. video=1440x900@60 directive on Grub's linu lines 4-boot Tumbleweed or Fedora 38 5-switch to a vtty, e.g. Ctrl-Alt-F3
Actual behavior: 1-Both displays utilize the resolution (same pixel grid) of the lower resolution display 2-Lower resolution display behaves as expected (light text on black background) 3-Higher resolution display uses same pixels as lower resolution display, with light text on black background, leaving right side and bottom raster instead of black
Expected behavior: 1-Both displays utilize the resolution (same pixel grid) of the lower resolution display 2-Lower resolution display behaves as expected 3-Entire higher resolution display's background is black instead of portions in raster
Workaround: add e.g. video=1440x900@60 to Grub's linu lines, which causes both displays to use the same nominal mode on the full display space.
Typical other linu line options: noresume consoleblank=0 net.ifnames=0 ipv6.disable=1 preempt=full mitigations=none
My Tesla has HDMI and DVI outputs, tested with 1920x1200 and 1680x1050 displays. My Fermi has dual DisplayPort, tested with 2560x1440 and 1680x1050 displays. Occurs Tumbleweed with 6.3.2 and 6.2.12 kernel-default, and with 6.2.15 on Fedora 38, and (partially with Tesla, right side only) with 6.2.12 and 6.3.3 on Mageia 9. Does not occur with 6.1.12 kernel-default on NVidia, or with AMD Caicos (Terascale2) GPU, or with Intel Eaglelake GPU. Tested only on legacy booting (no UEFI support). Others might describe what I call "raster" as multicolored snow.
See bugzilla for the full thread and attached dmesg.
Anyway, I'm adding it to regzbot:
#regzbot introduced: v6.1.12..v6.2.12 #regzbot title: vast raster right and bottom borders on larger display (two displays with inequal resolution) unless forcing resolution with video= parameter
Thanks.