Re: [Regression] X server doesn't start on MSI Wind w/ current mainline

From: Jesse Barnes
Date: Mon Jan 05 2009 - 12:48:25 EST


On Sunday, January 4, 2009 3:11 pm Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Saturday 03 January 2009, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > With the current mainline and the linux-next branch of your pci-2.6 tree
> > on top, the X server doesn't start any more on MSI Wind (Intel hardware)
> > w/ openSUSE 11.1 .
> >
> > I also tested the linux-next branch of the pci-2.6 tree on top of 2.6.28
> > and it doesn't cause any problem with the X server to happen.
>
> Well, I pulled the mainline from today, unsetted DRM_I915_KMS and it works
> again.
>
> BTW, what user land is necessary for the KMS to work?

Ah yeah defaulting to KMS enabled will probably get you undesirable results at
this point. You'll need a bleeding edge 2D driver (from xf86-video-intel git)
and libdrm 2.4.3 to make this all work. Be sure to pass "--enable-kms" when
you configure your 2D driver.

--
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center

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