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phoronix
06-23-2009, 08:20 PM
Phoronix: Ubuntu Defaults To Intel Kernel Mode-Setting

Canonical's X.Org guy, Bryce Harrington, has announced the switch to using Intel kernel mode-setting by default beginning with the new Linux 2.6.30 kernel update that was just committed to the Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" repository. Cheers! For those unfamiliar with what Intel kernel mode-setting means or would like more information, check out the mailing list announcement...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=NzM0Mw
Vadi
06-23-2009, 09:48 PM
So all people enjoying decent graphcis drivers (movies/compiz/gaming) are screwed by default in the next version?
Kano
06-23-2009, 09:55 PM
This refers to

http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/ubuntu-karmic.git;a=commit;h=0c6f3a4de53e28b3408812a761dc c6460e958d2c

But i still have to test what happens when the xserver/driver is too old for kms.
lithorus
06-24-2009, 12:18 AM
It makes my system unbootable with the latest kernel update. So beware to everyone not having a intel gfx card. Hopefully it'll get fixed soon.
Kano
06-24-2009, 06:35 AM
Without intel card the change has nothing to do with it. Do you have got a saa7146 card in your pc?

lspci -nn|grep 7146
lithorus
06-24-2009, 03:19 PM
Without intel card the change has nothing to do with it. Do you have got a saa7146 card in your pc?

lspci -nn|grep 7146
No. To be fair it fails with busybox. If I just exit that it continues to boot. Others have reported that that doesn't happen if you disable modesetting.