-------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Leann Ogasawara <leann.ogasawara@canonical.com> To: Christopher James Halse Rogers <christopher.halse.rogers@canonical.com> Cc: kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: [Maverick] [PATCH 0/4] KMS Disablement for i8xx Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:10:11 -0700 On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 09:52 +1000, Christopher James Halse Rogers wrote: > On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 14:25 -0400, Steven wrote: > > Dear Kernel Team, > > > > > > Please do NOT reapply these patches. UMS causes the majority of 8xx > > cards to boot to a black screen on Lucid and forward. I spent at least > > a month fixing probably a hundred different peoples' install problems > > after Lucid was released because of these patches. > > > > The situation in Maverick is different. In Lucid, we had the 2.9.1 > Intel X driver, which still had a UMS codepath. In Maverick, we have > 2.12, which does not have any UMS code. The Intel driver in Maverick > will not load without KMS. > > Disabling KMS on these cards in Lucid resulted in them using the UMS > codepaths of the Intel X driver, and in many cases failing. > > Disabling KMS on these cards in Maverick will result in them using the > VESA X driver, which has been reported to work on the various i8xx bugs. > > > > > If you do decide to reapply these, PLEASE consider paying especially > > close attention to bugs related to this change, at the very least. > > > > I will. Chris, thanks for the follow up and the clarification. Based on your feedback, I'll go ahead and re-apply these patches. Thanks, Leann -- kernel-team mailing list kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kernel-team
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