2012/2/22 James Simmons <[email protected]> @Andreas: thanks, that's what I needed.
> > My problem is not with the branch switching, I cloned twice to two > different folders so I switched to kms_branch in one of them. What I need > to do is to > > switch revisions in master to get an idea of which commit caused the > problems. > > I'll continue my testing next week, right now I have to prepare an exam > for college :p > > You will need to update the kms_branch and the drm-openchrome. > Last night I fixed some more issues with GEM allocation in both the > kernel and the xorg driver. For some time the kms_branch couldn't > allocate a buffer correctly form the new DRM kernel driver. Only > allocation with the main stream via DRM driver worked. That has been > fixed now so the kms_branch can use the GEM allocation ioctl. Last night > I booted the drm-openchrome kernel with mode setting disabled and the > xorg driver worked with no new regressions. > I saw the updates in the repo, I'll probably test them this weekend. > I also add the first KMS support code to the xorg driver. So if > you boot with drm-openchrome kernel with modeset=1 for the via module > param the xorg driver will use the KMS layer to detect outputs and set the > mode. Mind you this is a first step and a few more issues need to be > worked out. For some reason the cursor doesn't show up with KMS code but I > know it works on xf86-video-modesetting driver. Also with KMS xorg driver > I noticed a regression kernel side with DPMS. The monitor doesn't turn > back on after it powers doen. Please note the KMS kernel driver currently > only supports VGA ouput. Now that the xorg support KMS more support > for different ouputs will be added in the near future. > > I've no other output that I'm aware of, so that's no problem.
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