On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 22:17 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
On 05/29/2009 09:41 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 10:53 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>> kernel-2.6.29.4-167.fc11
>>> ------------------------
>>> * Wed May 27 2009 Kyle McMartin <kyle(a)redhat.com> 2.6.29.4-164
>>> - drm-intel-disable-kms-i8xx.patch: disable KMS by default on 845, 855,
>>> and 865. It can be forced on with i915.modeset=1 boot parameter.
>
> So, from 163 to 167, the sum total of changes was really just the
> addition of the patch to fix the hanging problem (and also
> drm-intel-set-domain-on-fault.patch , which is for another bug that we
> considered critical).
The last change on 167 says that KMS is disabled on these chipsets. You
seem to be saying it is actually enabled by default?
You're reading it wrong - it's a double-negative.
* Wed May 27 2009 Kristian Høgsberg <krh(a)madara.bos.redhat.com> -
2.6.4.167
- Actually disable drm-intel-disable-kms-i8xx.patch.
krh disabled the patch that disables kms - i.e. kms is now enabled again
for i8xx.
-w