On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:23 AM, Rod Whitworth <glis...@witworx.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:43:28 -0800, Mike Larkin wrote:
>
>>Intel drivers later than 2.10 are KMS only, which OpenBSD does not support.
>>The version in tree, based from CVS logs, is 2.9.1 with various backports
>>added from later versions, and some one-off work done to support the
>>later Intel chips in UMS.
>>
>
> Thanks for the explanation.
>
> I guess that, for at least some time, I'm going to be able to
> experience the sort of environment that users of archs that don't
> support virtual consoles live with. One difference being that I will
> have to sudo reboot to get to a console or sudo halt -p when I want a
> shutdown.
>
> I did some reading about UMS vs KMS and noted a Phoronix page showing
> that for many of their benchmarks ran faster in UMS. Not that it will
> help us if we can't get UMS drivers for many GPUs. Or maybe some *BSD
> dev will write a UMS driver, but don't hold your breath 8-)
>
> One intriguing thing I spotted was a statement that KMS allowed running
> X without root privs. There is some tension there I expect.
>
> Finally, having "wasted" a bunch of money (by my standards) getting a
> machine that avoided broadcom wi-fi and nvidia graphics and had a
> supported 10/100/1000 NIC (alc), I'd love to know what I should look
> for in graphics in future in laptop land.

It looks more and more that pencil and paper will be only open(non
Lin/Win only) solution :D

>
> Thanks again,
> Rod/
>
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