[Maverick] [PATCH 0/4] KMS Disablement for i8xx

[Matthew Garrett]

On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 05:10:11PM -0700, Leann Ogasawara wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 09:52 +1000, Christopher James Halse Rogers wrote:
> > Disabling KMS on these cards in Maverick will result in them using the
> > VESA X driver, which has been reported to work on the various i8xx bugs.

It's probably worth noting that a large number of 855 machines have 
native panel resolutions that aren't present in the vesa tables, and so 
won't be able to run in native resolution with the vesa driver.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org