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ANN: Kernel Mode-Setting for Intel Graphics
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| Today we've switched kernel mode-setting on by default for Intel graphics, a
| change which arrived with the 2.6.30-10.12 kernel.
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| Many of you already know all about KMS, and can stop reading here.
|
| For those who are wondering what the heck this new acronym is, I've attached
| some background explanation below, and answered some questions I expect to be
| common.
|
| Thanks go to apw and the kernel team for wrangling all the patches, and to
| the ubuntu-x team and community members who have been testing out this new
| stuff the past few months.
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https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2009-June/028402.html
Great themes for Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty jackalope
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| This is a collection of great themes for Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope, these
| themes are from zgegblog a blog of François Vogelweith, on the blog exist a
| collection of wonderful gnome themes for Ubuntu (see the total collection)
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http://www.unixmen.com/linux-distributions/ubuntu/265-great-themes-for-ubuntu-904-jaunty-jackalope
Recent:
Testing Out ATI Kernel Mode-Setting On Ubuntu
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| Kernel mode-setting for Intel graphics hardware can already be found in the
| mainline Linux kernel and will be included by default in the release of
| Ubuntu 9.10 later this year. While Intel's kernel mode-setting support has
| been maturing in a steadfast manner, this support has not been moving along
| quite as fast for ATI and NVIDIA hardware. It is possible we will see ATI/AMD
| kernel mode-setting along with the necessary memory management support enter
| the Linux 2.6.31 kernel and potentially see this feature appear in Ubuntu
| 9.10 as an end-user option, but currently this support is still deemed under
| development.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_ati_kms&num=1
Red Hat's Plymouth Sees New Work
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| Not a lot of work has gone into Red Hat's Plymouth project since the release
| of Fedora 10, but now in the middle of the development cycle of Fedora 11 we
| are seeing some new work emerge. Plymouth is a boot splash program that
| leverages kernel mode-setting to provide a rich, flicker-free boot
| experience. In the past week there have been a fair number of commits to the
| Plymouth Git repository, which is the first time it has seen new work since
| early January.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzExOA
The State of Kernel Mode-Setting
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| All of the kernel-based mode-setting excitement in Fedora 9 was limited to
| those using Intel's integrated graphics hardware. With Fedora 10 not only can
| Intel users benefit but so can those with ATI Radeon hardware. Jerome Glisse
| has been working on Radeon kernel mode-setting code since December of last
| year, and in recent months David Airlie and Adam Jackson have joined in on
| this work. For those using an ATI R300 GPU to R500 will have kernel-based
| mode-setting support enabled by default in this next Fedora release. A few
| months back AMD had released a new AtomBIOS parser to the open-source
| community, which is being used for the KMS driver and should enter the
| mainline Linux kernel -- likely with Linux 2.6.28.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=xorg_kms_2008&num=1
A Preview Of Kernel-Based Mode-Setting
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| Kernel-based mode-setting is a great advancement for Linux and X.Org with it
| being a feature that delivers noticeable benefits to the end-user -- a
| cleaner flicker-free boot process, fast and reliable VT switching, improved
| suspend-and-resume support, and soon enough will be making
| fast-user-switching even faster. This is just the tip of the iceberg and more
| benefits, such as graphical diagnostic capabilities, should be able to
| flourish as a result of kernel-based mode-setting.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=kernel_modesetting&num=1
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