On 2010-07-12 21:09 +0200, Stephen Powell wrote: > If nouveau set KMS by default, as the intel driver does, but did not > *require* KMS, I would agree. But the last time I checked, using the nouveau > driver *forces* KMS. I don't like that. I still use, and prefer, hardware > text mode virtual consoles (1-6).
May I ask why? If the reason is that the default font is too small, you can easily choose a bigger one, e.g. by "dpkg-reconfigure console-setup". And speed shouldn't really be an issue either, unlike with vesafb. > Because of that, I still use nv. That's > the *only* reason that I still use nv. There is no bug number here because > I'm sure that upstream would consider this a feature and not a bug. In other > words, they would consider operation of the driver with KMS off an enhancement > request. Indeed you would be wasting your time, upstream deliberately removed all UMS support from the nouveau X driver some months ago. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87630kpkon....@turtle.gmx.de
