[Openchrome-devel] Kernel with KMS support might conflict with X.org keyboard driver

James Simmons jsimmons
Tue Oct 4 07:10:09 PDT 2011


> Yes the xorg driver is not aware of the KMS kernel just yet. I believe
> Ubuntu uses a special xorg and kernel driver from VIA. There is a
> buffer allocation issue I'm trying to fix on the kernel side. Once that is
> done the xorg driver could be made ready to use the new GEM/TTM hooks in
> the drm-openchrome kernels. In that case we will be using the DRI2 apis
> :-)
> 
> I've recently (a few minutes ago) noticed sometimes I get the mouse pointer image corrupted.
> Could this behavior be related with the buffer allocation issue?

Yep, its a bug we have had for a while. I need to track it down. Now your 
at the same state as every one else.




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