On 19 February 2010 14:43, Ben Hutchings <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 09:56 +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote: >> Package: linux-2.6 >> Version: 2.6.32-8 >> Severity: normal >> >> >> When kms is enabled the radeon module cannot be unloaded. rmmod >> complains that the module is busy while the X server is not running. > > I think this is because the console now depends on the framebuffer > provided by the video driver. In theory the video driver could switch > back to a text mode on exit and the console driver could then be swapped > to vgacon (or whatever is appropriate) but there is no mechanism for > this currently. > >> This is different from my experience with intel KMS and quite annoying. > > Why is this a problem? >
Because KMS does not seem to work well for me so a mechanism for switching it off other than rebooting would come handy at times. Of course, I can always edit my startup scripts to not enable it and reboot. Not enabling it in startup scripts is not an option since X fails in KMS mode unless the module is manually preloaded. Thanks Michal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
