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Dheart

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From: Sofia, Bulgaria

Registered: 2006-10-26

Posts: 956

Intel KMS... Finaly useful

After the 2.6.31 kernel and xf86-video-intel 2.9 kms performance is finaly on par with performace of xf86-video-intel 2.7 with EXA on GEM kernel. And also the system is much more stable, no more hardlocks, it's intel's finaly done something 'bout those.
The only bad thing for now is that with KMS enabled lower resolutions (my native is 1280x800) that use different aspect ratio (for example 1024x768) stretch the screen, instead of using two sidelines of 133 pixels)
Anyone know how to fix that.

p.s. Finaly able to use kwin4 compositing, without receiving an immediate hardlock.

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Dheart

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From: Sofia, Bulgaria

Registered: 2006-10-26

Posts: 956

Re: Intel KMS... Finaly useful

Yep... No more hardlocks... Just kernel panics... But I think that's a step in the right direction... After all it was days before I had the first kernel panic...

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GogglesGuy

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From: Rocket City

Registered: 2005-03-29

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Re: Intel KMS... Finaly useful

Working pretty well here. No panics yet...

scio

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From: Buffalo, NY

Registered: 2008-08-05

Posts: 366

Re: Intel KMS... Finaly useful

Haven't had an intel video problem since I started using KMS, not sure what your setup is causing.

Dheart

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From: Sofia, Bulgaria

Registered: 2006-10-26

Posts: 956

Re: Intel KMS... Finaly useful

Well... I've been getting hardlocks and kernel panics quite frequently on my notebook... Tested with dell test system for sytem errors for several hours and nothing came up so I'm living with them...
I was getting a weekly kernel panic and 3 dayly hardlock, however no hardlocks since using KMS so that's why I said a step in the right direction xd

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