On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 14:42:52 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote: > On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 13:31 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 12:36:58 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 11:37:18AM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > > > > This might also mean that we'll want to > > > > turn kms on by default in the debian kernel, > > > > > > Is KMS backward compatible with older versions of the intel driver? > > > > > No :/ > > Running the kernel with intel.modeset=0 doesn't help ? > Yeah that works (with s/intel/i915/), but it's not quite user friendly to crash unless that's manually added to the kernel command line. So it's probably better to default kms off in the kernel, and have the new userspace turn it on via /etc/modprobe.d/.
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