On 2/28/08, Dave Airlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So just to let people know where kernel modesetting is getting to and > what I'm up to with it.. > > So I really want to ship something in Fedora 9 with kernel modesetting > in it, whether this is a default or a special boot option for the user > I won't decide for a while. > > But with this in mind I've checked in bunch of changes to the > modesetting drm to make modesetting optional for i915, you now load > the i915 module with modeset=1 to enable it. > I've also created an intel-kernelmode branch which is based on the > intel-batchbuffer branch, with fairly clean modesetting integration. > It still needs work to fixup a few features but I'm going to work my > way through the list. > (it needs fixes for rotation + video at the moment) > > The DDX driver can detect whether modesetting is enabled in the drm > and does the right thing for each case. > > I checked a patch into the server to allow the crtc callback to work, > I think this breaks ABI with xf86Crtc.c users, need to confirm what > the proper action for this is. I can confirm that i had to recompile my video driver after upgrading the xserver. The problem was obscure (a blank screen) and not some hard failure.
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