[arch-general] KMS again with 2.6.33?

Tobias Powalowski t.powa at gmx.de
Sat Feb 6 06:56:59 EST 2010


Am Samstag 06 Februar 2010 schrieb Sven-Hendrik Haase:
> On 06.02.2010 12:03, Tobias Powalowski wrote:
> > Am Samstag 06 Februar 2010 schrieb Sven-Hendrik Haase:
> >> I was wondering whether KMS would officially return with 2.6.33 since a
> >> lot of fixes have gone into it? Obviously there will be a lengthy
> >> testing series first. Is it currently planned to try KMS again with
> >> 2.6.33?
> >> 
> >> -- Sven-Hendrik
> > 
> > You can still use kms, depends on your card but we have full support for
> > it right now.
> > greetings
> > tpowa
> 
> As it stands, it requires recompiling the whole stack to enable DRI2
> acceleration as well as using AUR packages. While this obviously is
> supported by the packages, I don't consider it "officially supported by
> Arch". Even the wiki says so. I'm talking about real official Arch
> support with supported packages now that KMS drivers are out of staging.
> 
> -- Sven-Hendrik
It will be supported as .33 will ship kms.
Right now .32 supports kms for ati and intel cards, nouveau is optional.

greetings
tpowa
-- 
Tobias Powalowski
Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa)
http://www.archlinux.org
tpowa at archlinux.org
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