Ubuntu Defaults To Intel Kernel Mode-Setting

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Ubuntu Defaults To Intel Kernel Mode-Setting

Canonical's X.Org guy, Bryce Harrington, has announced the switch to using Intel kernel mode-setting by default beginning with the new Linux 2.6.30 kernel update that was just committed to the Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" repository. Cheers! For those unfamiliar with what Intel kernel mode-setting means or would like more information, check out the mailing list announcement...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=NzM0Mw

[Vadi]

So all people enjoying decent graphcis drivers (movies/compiz/gaming) are screwed by default in the next version?

[Kano]

This refers to

http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/ubuntu-karmic.git;a=commit;h=0c6f3a4de53e28b3408812a761dcc6460e958d2c

But i still have to test what happens when the xserver/driver is too old for kms.

[lithorus]

It makes my system unbootable with the latest kernel update. So beware to everyone not having a intel gfx card. Hopefully it'll get fixed soon.

[Kano]

Without intel card the change has nothing to do with it. Do you have got a saa7146 card in your pc?

lspci -nn|grep 7146

[lithorus]

Without intel card the change has nothing to do with it. Do you have got a saa7146 card in your pc?

lspci -nn|grep 7146

No. To be fair it fails with busybox. If I just exit that it continues to boot. Others have reported that that doesn't happen if you disable modesetting.