Bug#525793: /usr/share/man/man4/intel.4.gz: UXA isn't used as default
Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel
> Version: 2:2.7.0-1
> Severity: minor
> File: /usr/share/man/man4/intel.4.gz
>
> Hello,
>
> intel(4) states for Option "AccelMethod":
>
> Default: "UXA" if kernel-modesetting is available, "EXA"
> otherwise
>
> But without setting AccelMethod EXA is used on 2.6.29-1-686. Doing
>
> grep [UE]XA /var/log/Xorg.0.log
>
> only yields:
>
> (==) intel(0): Using EXA for acceleration
> (WW) intel(0): DRI2 requires UXA
> (II) EXA(0): Offscreen pixmap area of 12582912 bytes
> (II) EXA(0): Driver registered support for the following operations:
>
> After setting AccelMethod to UXA the logs suggest that UXA is used---see
> below.
>
> So the default for AccelMethod seems to be unconditionally EXA.
>
Did you actually enabled KMS properly?
Brice
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