Bug#601434: closed by Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> (Re: Bug#601434: xorg kernel modesetting req in sid)
Nevermind. I got it working, found some info on a gentoo forum.
Apparently you can't use framebuffer with KMS which makes sense and I
never used KMS so I didn't know this. So in case anyone else asks, I
removed the framebuffer drivers and got it booting.
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 1:56 AM, Peter <necedemalis@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'll try to post that information... its tricky since my X doesn't
> work... I can't use reportbug. Also, I've emailed bugs before about
> bugs with reportbug so...
>
> But I have to say, has anyone tried to use KMS on an Intel GMA 950
> with the i915 driver, debian unstable, and the official 2.6.36 latest
> stable linux kernel?
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Cesare Leonardi <celeonar@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>
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