hollunder@... wrote:
hollunder@..., Sat 2011-11-12 @ 22:42:57-0500: [1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22674#c11
Thanks Taylor, I still consider this a bug because this didn't happen for years but seems to happen every time I boot since 3.1.
Another workaround is to disable kms by booting with the nomodeset option.
Another new issue is that my mousepointer frequently flickers/disappears and that xv video out in smplayer doesn't work anymore, but both of those are with the nomodeset option, have yet to test with kms enabled again.
FWIW, KMS never worked for me (on a desktop, though). The board has a nvidia chipset. All the characters on the screen were displayed "giant mode", ie. I could see only the first few of them, but they were inches wide, with large pixels.
So I had to append "nouveau.modeset=0" to the append line of the etc/lilo.conf.
clemens
Back when kms was introduced it was already supported by intel (I guess they developed it) and it took a while for nvidia and ATI. That it causes issues now for intel is clearly a regression, that it still doesn't work for nvidia is ... bad. On the other hand it seems a machine with intel chip doesn't work properly without kms now, so I'm not quite sure what's worse.