> 1. On boot up, the screen goes completely black until the xserver is > started.
KMS provides its own framebuffer console driver -- disable any other framebuffer drivers such as (u)vesafb and enable FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_DETECT_PRIMARY under drivers/graphics support/console display driver support. Also make sure you remove any vga= or video= options from the kernel commandline in your bootloader configuration. You will get a _fast_ console with native resolution (no more horribly stretched fonts!) BTW, everything KMS-related should be compiled in rather than built as a module. > 2. Once the XServer runs, it is extremely unstable. It gets killed and > restarted by XDM every few minutes. dmesg and Xorg.0.log haven't shown > anything suspicious. I've been using 1.8 since it made it into the tree and I must say I did not encounter any problems. Did you recompile every installed packege in x11-drivers after the switch to 1.8? Here I'm running ~amd64 with tuxonice-sources and xorg-server-1.8.1.902 on an Acer 2930 (GMA 4500MHD, 1200x800). I use KDE but I don't think that is relevant. andrea
