On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 06:37:10 +0100 Alex Bennee <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2009/4/27 Florian Mickler <[email protected]>: > > On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 07:27:35 +0100 > > Alex Bennee <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Heading the warnings in the menuconfig I did try and ensure I have > >> all the up to date parts of user-space. With KMS enabled GDM > >> starts up but then corrupts the display with vertical lines. > >> Disabling the kernel config and everything starts up fine, UXA > >> acceleration seems OK and the speed of compiz is finally back up > >> to ~60fps thanks to the A17 fix. > >> > >> Am I missing another bit of user space for KMS to work properly? > > Apparently I was missing a key bit and had to enable fbdev from the > command line: > > kernel /kernel-2.6-drm root=/dev/sda2 > video=intelfb:mode=1440x900...@75,accel,hwcursor > > However I still saw the same corruption kick in when GDM started. I > couldn't switch mode either which kinda defeated the point. The above seems to indicate that you have some FB drivers built into your kernel; that will likely fail in weird ways. Try disabling all the FB drivers, but keep CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE enabled. Then when you load the i915 driver you should get a nice console. -- Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
