Dan Nicholson wrote: > Sorry. KMS is kernel modesetting. This has been a recent change. > Previously, the X drivers did all the modesetting from userspace, > which required a lot of banging on the card as root. Moving all the > privileged code for modesetting into the kernel allows lots of > improvements. Here's a far better explanation than I could ever give: > > http://keithp.com/blogs/kernel-mode-drivers/ > > The rub here is that the intel driver (and now radeon) have very > mature modesetting code for userspace that has to be ported over to > the kernel. This has mostly been done for intel, but people are still > reporting regressions (black screen on intel was one that was reported > often).
OK, we'll leave it as is for now and keep it in mind is someone else has the same type of problem. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
