On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 08:09 -0500, Graham wrote:
[...]
> > problem with 'oops' messages on a standard VGA text console.
> 
> Indeed. I don't understand why /etc/modprobe.d/i915-kms.conf is
> shipped as part of X.org. I don't have X installed on this machine.
> Maybe this file should be moved to the udev package, since udev ships
> fbdev-blacklist.conf, which seems somewhat related.

KMS must not be enabled if there is an X video driver installed that
expects to do UMS.  The kernel and X maintainers discussed how best to
ensure that partial upgrades can work, and that's what we came up with.

Following the 'squeeze' release, I expect that we will enable KMS by
default.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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