[Intel-gfx] Framebuffer compression on GM45 disabled with KMS

[Jesse Barnes]

On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:04:23 +0100
Pedro Ribeiro <pedrib at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> My Xorg.log shows
> 
> (**) intel(0): Kernel mode setting active, disabling FBC.
> (**) intel(0): Framebuffer compression disabled
> 
> Is this normal? I'm trying to lower power consumption for my laptop...
> Enabling FBC should do it?
> 
> I have
> fbpercrtc=0
> modeset=1
> powersave=1
> lvds_downclock=1
> enabled on the i915 module.

It's just a stale message, I'll remove it.  FBC will be enabled by your
kernel if possible (you can check /sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/ for status
info if you have debugfs mounted).

Jesse