On 10/26/2010 08:51 AM, Peter wrote:
I checked out the links you sent, but I don't understand why, if it worked previously, UMS is being removed as an option now. The thing is, I have to mess with it more, but I think KMS may work partly with 2.6.30 or 32 but I'm not sure. When I saw the update, I decided I should update my kernel to see if that helped. On 2.6.36, I get a black screen on boot with KMS! Could you maybe explain to me more technically why UMS is being removed? I think I have an Intel GMA 950.
Hi Peter.Upstream is working on KMS and considers UMS obsolete; Debian has chosen to follow that for the sake of sustainability. Currently many problems were solved and looking at the decrease of bug reports regarding the Intel driver on the debian-x mailing list, seems that the driver is in a rather good shape now. The reasons behind the UMS/KMS choices are scattered on various mailing list. I suggest you to search on these mailing list archives:
Upstream: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/intel-gfx/ Debian-x: http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/ Debian-kernel: http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/Then i suggest you to followup to this bug using reportbug, so that important information about your hardware, your kernel and software versions are sent automatically. Because your report really lack many information.
Please, at least post: - dmesg output - lspci output - linux-image version - xserver-xorg-video-intel driver version Ciao. Cesare.