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Bug#525793: /usr/share/man/man4/intel.4.gz: UXA isn't used as default



Hello Brice,

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:10:06AM +0200, Brice Goglin wrote:
> 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?
I did nothing but booting a 2.6.29 kernel.  If I need to do something
else, I wonder why setting AccelMethod=UXA explictily seems to work.
Does this setting result in the driver enabling KMS for me?

Best regards
Uwe

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