[arch-general] KMS again with 2.6.33?

Jan de Groot jan at jgc.homeip.net
Mon Feb 8 18:50:08 EST 2010


On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 18:52 +0100, Xavier Chantry wrote:
> It seems the question was not only about kms but also about dri2,
> which is needed to get 3d support with kms.
> 
> About nouveau, ums was dropped from ddx on 11th January and
> extra/xf86-video-nouveau package is from 17th January. So the only
> option is to use kms, which should also be enabled by default now. 

Which means autoloading of nouveau modules by udev, which means breaking
the nvidia drivers for everyone not blacklisting it.

This is going to be so much fun... especially now nouveau was merged in
the staging tree.



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