Re: enabling kms for i915 disables brightness control and xrandr

From: Eric Anholt
Date: Tue Mar 31 2009 - 17:59:01 EST


On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 14:00 +0200, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 12:01 +0100, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 12:34:01PM +0200, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> > >
> > > I am not sure if this is just a user error/ too old userspace problem,
> >
> > Which version of X intel driver are you running?
> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/2/27/363 suggests you will have unsupported
> > problems unless it is 2.6.2 or higher...
>
> Using 2.6.3 things became a lot faster with UXA, but the brightness
> (only possible to set via setpci) and xrandr problems (modes missing)
> are still there...

KMS property control in the 2D driver was introduced recently, and
should be in 2.7, think.

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Eric Anholt
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