On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:59:12PM -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote
KMS drivers and framebuffer console drivers are different and AFAIK
mutually exclusive. The boot parameter to disable KMS would be, e.g.,
i915.modeset=0
I don't want to disable KMS, I want to disable framebuffer, and I
simply
On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 00:29 -0400, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote:
If you are using the Intel graphics I think you should try KMS.
Switching back and forth between X and a vt is both fast and
flicker-free and I haven't seen any artifacts switching between
the two.
From looking at Google,
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 06:16:46AM -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Intel_GMA#Kernel_Modesetting
Thanks. I'll read that over and try it out. From the looks of it,
I'll have to go into my backups and dig up a working xorg.conf. And
save a text copy of the xorg.conf
On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 18:01 -0400, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote:
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 06:16:46AM -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Intel_GMA#Kernel_Modesetting
Thanks. I'll read that over and try it out. From the looks of it,
I'll have to go into my backups
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 06:55:50PM -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote
You may not have do that. All 3 of my systems with Intel graphics run
KMS with X with no xorg.conf at all. But since you're running stable
YMMV.
Fortunately I've set up lilo to boot up from separate Production and
Experimental
On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 22:13 -0400, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote:
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 06:55:50PM -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote
You may not have do that. All 3 of my systems with Intel graphics run
KMS with X with no xorg.conf at all. But since you're running stable
YMMV.
Some people like the nice crisp text of true console mode. Many can't
stand surfing with a textmode browser. Count me in both groups. So I
switch back and forth a lot. This email is being composed in a true
text console (80 columns x 48 rows; but that's another story). I flip
to X for
On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 20:55 -0400, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote:
Some people like the nice crisp text of true console mode. Many can't
stand surfing with a textmode browser. Count me in both groups. So I
switch back and forth a lot. This email is being composed in a true
text console (80
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 09:30:06PM -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote
If you are using the Intel graphics I think you should try KMS.
Switching back and forth between X and a vt is both fast and
flicker-free and I haven't seen any artifacts switching between
the two.
From looking at Google, I
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