Bug#563003: xserver-xorg-video-intel: New KMS method in experimental is not upstream recommended

[Vasilis Vasaitis <v.vasaitis@sms.ed.ac.uk>]

  From my own tests with current unstable today, adding "video=i915"
to the kernel command line suffices; the ":modeset=1" bit is not
necessary. In both cases, the resolution changes before /sbin/init is
started, i.e. at initrd time. So it looks like the policy specified in
/etc/modprobe.d/ does propagate to the initrd.

  Therefore at the moment, as far as I can tell, there are two ways to
have a KMS-enabled console right from the start of the boot process,
in unstable:

  1. By adding "video=i915" to the kernel command line, with or
without the ":modeset=1" suffix.

  2. By adding "i915" and "intel_agp" to /etc/initramfs-tools/modules.

  IMHO, adding the kernel command line option is no worse than what we
had to do before anyway to enable suitable framebuffer consoles. But
of course, if a way is found to load i915 automatically at
initrd/udev/whatever time, that'd be great too.

Thanks,
Vasilis

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Vasilis Vasaitis
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