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Linux Gets Kernel-Based Modesetting

Posted by timothy on from the always-wanted-a-linux-bsod dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Next month when Fedora 9 is released it will be the first Linux distribution with support for kernel mode-setting, which is (surprisingly) a feature end-users should take note over. Kernel-based modesetting provides a flicker-free boot process, faster and more reliable VT switching, a Linux BSOD, and of most interest is much-improved suspend/resume support! The process of moving the modesetting code from the X.Org video driver into the Linux kernel isn't easy, but it should become official with the Linux 2.6.27 kernel, and the Intel video driver can already use this technology. Phoronix has a preview of kernel-based modesetting covering more of this new Linux feature accompanied by videos showing the dramatic improvements in virtual terminal switching."

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  1. Re:Hasn't this been settled ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Clearly Tanenbaum was right, since OS X has a microkernal.

    BSD is dead. Netcraft has confirmed it. Therefore, OS X is dead.

  2. Oh boy! by Malevolyn · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just what we need: a Linux BSOD!

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  3. Waitasec... by jamstar7 · · Score: 5, Funny

    A BSOD? Lemme guess, that patch came from Novell, right?

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  4. Re:Thanks but no thanks by Goalie_Ca · · Score: 2, Funny

    If I had a lot of money like google does then I would fund just enough work to keep the joke alive :D

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  5. Re:KGI, only much later and missing some features. by RiotingPacifist · · Score: 2, Funny

    woot in 2018 well get rieser4 :D

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  6. iKonqueror == Safari by tepples · · Score: 4, Funny

    iKonqueror A Mac-style web browser using a KHTML fork? We already have that, except the i is at the other side of "Safari".

    emac.. err imacs Apple has made both iMac and eMac computers. The eMac was introduced when some teachers found the Luxo Jr. style iMac G4 not durable enough for the K-12 market.

    even ililo? You'll get iLilo only if you buy Apple's embroidery machine, the iStitch. Thanks to a deal between Apple and Disney, brokered with the help of Disney plurality shareholder Steve Jobs, the iStitch comes preloaded with Disney patterns.
  7. Re:Confirmed, works and is very promising by JackieBrown · · Score: 2, Funny

    I wish I hadn't just bought a nvidia card.

    Being a Linux user, I never thought I'd say that.

  8. DRM? by tepples · · Score: 1, Funny

    Right now, you basically have two driver frameworks managing the video hardware (and possibly more): the kernel's own framebuffer and the X.org drivers, which already have DRM shims in kernelspace. I thought DRM shims in the kernel space is part of what screwed up Windows Vista.
  9. Finally - Linux BSOD by daffmeister · · Score: 3, Funny

    The final impediment removed to allow "the year of linux on the desktop".