Re: rollback X, SIS671/771
On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:15:02 -0500, David L. Craig wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 09:44:55AM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote:
> > According to Ron Lee, Debian package maintainer for the
> > svgatextmode package, recent Linux kernels have taken over direct
> > control of the video hardware, and recent releases of X now make
> > system calls to the kernel to change video modes. He refers to
> > it as "Kernel Modesetting Stuff" (KMS).
>
> Thank for that information. I must be missing a crucial list
> subscription as I haven't heard any of this.
A Google search of the internet using the keywords
linux kernel KMS
produced about 136,000 hits; so it's not a secret. But I hadn't
heard about it either until I found out from Ron.
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