[Debian-eeepc-devel] enable/disable KMS (was: another prerelease eeepc-live image ready for testing)

[Paul Menzel]

Am Dienstag, den 05.01.2010, 13:02 +0100 schrieb Frédéric Boiteux:
> Le Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:04:24 -0400,
> Ben Armstrong <synrg at sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca> a écrit :

[…]

> - I've noted that you updated the kernel to 2.6.32, and that with that,
> I always has access to consoles, whereas using my own Squeeze setup +
> 2.6.32 leads me to be hit by a bug like 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=509271, don't having
> access to virtual consoles anymore once Xorg started ! I think main
> difference is that your system doesn't use KMS, and would try mine
> without KMS when I'll find how to enable/disable KMS from the kernel
> cmd line.

For example »pass i915.modeset=1 to the kernel at boot« as written among
other possibilities in the Debian Wiki [1].

[…]


Thanks,

Paul


[1] http://wiki.debian.org/KernelModesetting?highlight=%28kms%29
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