[Pm-utils] Improve 98smart-kernel-video

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Thu Nov 12 10:10:39 PST 2009


On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 06:36:13PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:

> Hm, my bad then.
> I have to say that I tested to boot a system with i915.modesetting=0
> and afaicr there was no
> /sys/module/i915 directory then, so have_smart_intel wouldn't trigger
> anyway, what gives?

There should be, unless your init scripts refuse to load i915 if there's 
no modesetting enabled.

> Maybe my memory doesn't serve me well but I thought have_smart_intel
> was written in the early days of the KMS support for intel when there
> was no inteface like /proc/fb yet, which could be used to check for
> KMS.

No, i915 gained the ability to resume before KMS was integrated.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org


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