On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 20:33:00 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 16:50:22 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > > The X packages will be able to use modprobe > > > > config files to enable KMS at run time as required. > > > > This is not for the kernel team to do. > > > FWIW, this is done for intel in experimental, probably soon in unstable. > For radeon the decision whether to enable kernel mode setting by default > for squeeze is still to be made. > One issue that showed up is that i915 isn't getting loaded by udev, because /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf contains:
# This directive blacklists all devices which are members of the display class. # It has the main effect of preventing udev from autoloading the fb drivers. # vendor, device, subsystem_vendor, subsystem_device, class, class, class install pci:v*d*sv*sd*bc03sc*i* /bin/true So right now it gets loaded by the initramfs if video=i915 is in the kernel command line, or by X when it starts otherwise. One possible way to fix this, I guess, would be to replace this blacklist entry with a list of blacklisted fb drivers, to allow i915 (and later radeon and nouveau) being loaded automatically on boot. Is this feasible? Are there other/better solutions? Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
