[Pm-utils] Video quirks without HAL or dbus

[Victor Lowther]

On Nov 4, 2008, at 10:37 AM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org>  
wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 10:30:45AM -0600, Victor Lowther wrote:
>
>> Did you miss the bits about taking kernel and video driver versions
>> into account? It is not like old, broken software is going away, you
>> know - not with multi year support contracts and all that. Or the bit
>> about new --quirk-none quirks? Adding new quirks to the database that
>> say "kernel rev x with video hardware y running driver z needs no
>> quirks" is less invasive than ripping out quirks that are still  
>> needed
>> on older video driver stacks.
>
> No, it's nothing to do with the kernel version. You can't depend on
> that. You need to check the kernel functionality. If KMS is being  
> used,
> you *must* drop all quirks, regardless of the hardware in question.  
> The
> mode hasn't been set through vbe, so you're not going to be able to
> reprogram the same mode as the kernel did. If you try reprogramming a
> mode anyway (which is what the quirks all do) then you've just
> guaranteed that X will fail.

Point me at an API to determine if KMS is being used.

>
> There's no intermediate step here. With the possible exception of the
> s3_bios and s3_mode calls (which are executed before the graphics
> hardware resume code), you must never run any quirks on a KMS setup.
> Even if there are bugs in the KMS code that result in the card not
> resuming properly, running the quirks will not make the situation
> better.
>
> -- 
> Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
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