On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 08:09 -0500, Graham wrote: [...] > > problem with 'oops' messages on a standard VGA text console. > > Indeed. I don't understand why /etc/modprobe.d/i915-kms.conf is > shipped as part of X.org. I don't have X installed on this machine. > Maybe this file should be moved to the udev package, since udev ships > fbdev-blacklist.conf, which seems somewhat related. KMS must not be enabled if there is an X video driver installed that expects to do UMS. The kernel and X maintainers discussed how best to ensure that partial upgrades can work, and that's what we came up with. Following the 'squeeze' release, I expect that we will enable KMS by default. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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