> hollunder@... wrote: > >>> hollunder@..., Sat 2011-11-12 @ 22:42:57-0500: >>> [1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22674#c11 >> >> Thanks Taylor, >> I still consider this a bug because this didn't happen for years but >> seems to happen every time I boot since 3.1. >> >> Another workaround is to disable kms by booting with the nomodeset >> option. >> >> Another new issue is that my mousepointer frequently >> flickers/disappears and that xv video out in smplayer doesn't work >> anymore, but both of those are with the nomodeset option, have yet to >> test with kms enabled again. > > FWIW, KMS never worked for me (on a desktop, though). The board has > a nvidia chipset. All the characters on the screen were displayed > "giant mode", ie. I could see only the first few of them, but they were > inches wide, with large pixels. > > So I had to append "nouveau.modeset=0" to the append line of the > etc/lilo.conf. > > > clemens Back when kms was introduced it was already supported by intel (I guess they developed it) and it took a while for nvidia and ATI. That it causes issues now for intel is clearly a regression, that it still doesn't work for nvidia is ... bad. On the other hand it seems a machine with intel chip doesn't work properly without kms now, so I'm not quite sure what's worse.
