* Alan McKinnon <[email protected]> wrote: > KMS removes the need for the video driver to be aware of all > the nonsense that requires. The driver no longer needs to get > up close and personal with everything else the kernel is doing > and make really sure it's timing is really right. Of course, > the video driver has to support KMS for this to work. nVidia > doesn't, nouveau does.
AFAIK, KMS moves parts of the video driver's jobs to kernelspace. Mode switching from userland (more precisely: done by X) always has been a tricky and unstable thing, eg. crashing Xserver leaving behind usuable console. That should be gone w/ KMS (admitting, I didn't really test it yet). cu -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: [email protected] mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq: 210169427 skype: nekrad666 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Embedded-Linux / Portierung / Opensource-QM / Verteilte Systeme ----------------------------------------------------------------------
