On Friday 29 January 2010 01:57:01 Paul W. Frields wrote: > On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 01:09:21PM -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > > So why was kernel mode setting such a huge improvement? :-). > > Well, speaking only for two different pieces of NVidia and two ATI > cards in my household, it makes for a beautiful graphical boot > process. YMMV, but all my machines start up with the boot logo and > fade smoothly into a GDM login as intended. With more good bug > reports and testing help from the community, we can achieve even > better coverage. Intel included as well. :-) In addition, IIRC the intent was also to provide a "flicker-free" boot, ie. avoid having the monitor switch resolutions several times during boot. IOW, it's not just a eye-candy plymouth boot, but also avoiding that ugly annoying "click" that the monitor does when switching. Also, the virtual terminals look much nicer in hi-res. :-) Finally, the KMS idea is apparently more elegant code-wise, because it neatly splits the kernel-side and user-side of the driver. At least in the nouveau case --- they don't even support non-KMS driver anymore. I believe there is a trend to do the same in the intel and radeon world as well. All in all, bleeding edge software, and our own choice to run it... ;-) Best, :-) Marko -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
