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    Phoronix: NVIDIA's Proprietary Driver Is Moving Closer With Kernel Mode-Setting

    NVIDIA has been working out plans for their graphics driver to support Mir and Wayland. As part of that, besides their recent EGL support, they've been tackling kernel mode-setting...

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  • #2
    Well that's good news. Hopefully we can see a majority of users switch to Wayland as default within the next few years.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by kenjitamura View Post
      Well that's good news. Hopefully we can see a majority of users switch to Wayland as default within the next few years.
      Or at least implement true KMS within their driver for X11 in some future release.

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      • #4
        the hell froze over

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        • #5
          After so many years! Finally!

          This is great news for the whole graphics stack. Between this and AMD's new driver we can finally shed the old hacks and have a clean, kernel-controlled video mode since boot with bootsplash and crash diagonostics!

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          • #6
            Originally posted by [Knuckles] View Post
            After so many years! Finally!

            This is great news for the whole graphics stack. Between this and AMD's new driver we can finally shed the old hacks and have a clean, kernel-controlled video mode since boot with bootsplash and crash diagonostics!
            I was thinking the same thing. So much code could be cleaned up, so much easier and simpler.
            And it's simply stupid not having such a core feature as KMS while having piles of advanced GL features which rarely if ever get used.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by mark45 View Post
              And it's simply stupid not having such a core feature as KMS while having piles of advanced GL features which rarely if ever get used.
              Nvidia has been doing modesetting in the kernel for years before KMS even existed. This isn't them adding kernel modesetting, this is simply adding a KMS interface layer on top of their private modesetting solution.

              Also, I disagree with your general statement. As long as you can set the preferred resolution on all your screens in the environment where you spend the most time (which is X and will be X for some time still before Wayland fully takes over), how exactly this is done is an unimportant implementation detail. But graphics features have a bigger impact, because if a feature is not there and an application or game has a hard requirement for it, you can't run that app/game at all.
              Last edited by Gusar; 23 May 2015, 07:18 PM.

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              • #8
                In the meantime, AMD still hasn't finished xorg drivers for 15-year-old cards...

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by eydee View Post
                  In the meantime, AMD still hasn't finished xorg drivers for 15-year-old cards...
                  Guess why they haven't finished those drivers: because the cards are as old as the millennium.

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                  • #10
                    Huh ? What do you think is missing ?
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