On Thu, 03 Feb 2011, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-02-03 16:41 +0100, T o n g wrote: > KMS is indeed not required yet, but I bet it will be sooner or later.
Hmm? IME Squeeze is absolutely UNUSABLE without KMS on a Radeon X300 (ThinkPad T43p). Besides, Mesa/DRI in Squeeze is incompatible with non-KMS radeon. Which is a pain, since KMS is very bad at saving power and has worse performance in a X300 than the older non-KMS stack. For the first time in 5 years, I managed to get unknown NMIs in that box, all it took was to enable the KMS auto profile (which is much worse than the old dynamic clocks stuff at saving power), and switch from battery to AC. There's also the added agravation that you have to hunt down and remove every sleep hack (like s3_bios, s3_mode, vbetool...), since they break things with KMS. I guess they will have removed all performance and usability regressions by 2.6.42 or thereabouts. It is a very sad situation, brought forth by the lack of backwards compatibility in mesa/X with the (currently superior) non-KMS DRI drivers. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110204003355.ga14...@khazad-dum.debian.net