Star A Preview of Kernel-Based Mode-Setting
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 20th Apr 2008 12:52 UTC, submitted by Michael Larabel
X11, Window Managers Have you ever been annoyed by Linux' lack of a coherent graphical boot process? Graphics hardware causing problems during sleep/wake cycles? Problematic virtual terminal switches? Kernel-based mode-setting, a new feature of Xorg still in heavy development aims to solve many of these problems by moving the mode-setting code from the user-space X driver into the Linux kernel. Phoronix takes a look at this new feature.
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have you ever ?
by l3v1 on Sun 20th Apr 2008 15:03 UTC
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2005-07-06

Have you ever been annoyed by Linux' lack of a coherent graphical boot process?


No.

I'm not interested in seeing it boot. I'm preoccupied with using it.

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RE: have you ever ?
by Thom_Holwerda on Sun 20th Apr 2008 15:06 in reply to "have you ever ?"
Thom_Holwerda Member since:
2005-06-29

I'm not interested in seeing it boot. I'm preoccupied with using it.


Well, in that case you should be really happy, as the new feature makes using Linux easier and less buggy (potentially).

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