On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 12:36:06PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > Am 01.10.2010 um 12:19 schrieb Alexander Heinlein: > > > Another thing that bothers me with the new kernels is that I have to enable > > KMS to use the intel driver, but disable it if I want to use vesa (the > > current fallback for me). Changing the bootloader configuration and > > rebooting just to switch the graphics driver doesn't seem right. > > You can use fbdev instead of vesa as fallback, it works fine with KMS > (but does not do any mode setting, so you can't change the resolution). > Using fbdev leads to a lockup of the whole system. Blank monitor, no keyboard input any more, even SSH doesn't work. Seems like a kernel panic or something similar. But I guess this belongs to a separate bug report.
Also I recognized when using vesa and disabling KMS, I can't switch back to a virtual console or the screen goes blank. Even switching back to X leaves me with a blank screen. But I guess this belongs to a separate bug report, too :). Man, I can remember graphics drivers being less complicated under Linux five years ago, what happened to them? Regards, Alex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101002084751.ga23...@scy
