Re: loading kernel mode setting drivers

2010-01-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
Julien Cristau wrote: > On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 00:27:48 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > What about my suggestion of removing the MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE > > declarations from fb modules, so they do not appear in modules.pcimap > > etc? Did you see any problem with that? > > > Dropping those and u

Re: loading kernel mode setting drivers

2010-01-24 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 00:27:48 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > What about my suggestion of removing the MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE > declarations from fb modules, so they do not appear in modules.pcimap > etc? Did you see any problem with that? > Dropping those and udev's blacklist would be fine as far

Re: loading kernel mode setting drivers

2010-01-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 00:56 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 01:34:45 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > > On Jan 12, Julien Cristau wrote: > > > > > Marco, what do you think of switching to this, or at least using its fb > > > part? > > I do not mind explicitly blacklisting ea

Re: loading kernel mode setting drivers

2010-01-24 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 01:34:45 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jan 12, Julien Cristau wrote: > > > Marco, what do you think of switching to this, or at least using its fb > > part? > I do not mind explicitly blacklisting each fb driver, but I would like > to have a way to semi-automatically ge

Re: loading kernel mode setting drivers

2010-01-12 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 00:43 +, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 00:36:49 +, Julien Cristau wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 00:31:53 +, Julien Cristau wrote: > > > > > I tried to look at how other distributions handle this, and this > > > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.c

Re: loading kernel mode setting drivers

2010-01-12 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 01:34:45AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > I do not mind explicitly blacklisting each fb driver, but I would like > to have a way to semi-automatically generate the list. Is there any? Sure, the kernel build have all necessary informations. Bastian -- We Klingons believe as

Re: loading kernel mode setting drivers

2010-01-11 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 00:36:49 +, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 00:31:53 +, Julien Cristau wrote: > > > I tried to look at how other distributions handle this, and this > > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf file seems to be a Debianism. From what > > I can tell (looking

Re: loading kernel mode setting drivers

2010-01-11 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 00:31:53 +, Julien Cristau wrote: > I tried to look at how other distributions handle this, and this > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf file seems to be a Debianism. From what > I can tell (looking at the ubuntu archive and a fedora 10 box) other > distros have a /etc/mo

Re: loading kernel mode setting drivers

2010-01-11 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jan 12, Julien Cristau wrote: > Marco, what do you think of switching to this, or at least using its fb > part? I do not mind explicitly blacklisting each fb driver, but I would like to have a way to semi-automatically generate the list. Is there any? BTW, I am not sure why the watchdog drive

Re: loading kernel mode setting drivers

2010-01-11 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 18:24:56 +, Julien Cristau wrote: > One issue that showed up is that i915 isn't getting loaded by udev, > because /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf contains: > > # This directive blacklists all devices which are members of the display > class. > # It has the main effect

Re: loading kernel mode setting drivers

2010-01-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2009-12-31 at 18:24 +, Julien Cristau wrote: [...] > One possible way to fix this, I guess, would be to replace this > blacklist entry with a list of blacklisted fb drivers, to allow i915 > (and later radeon and nouveau) being loaded automatically on boot. Is > this feasible? Are ther

loading kernel mode setting drivers

2009-12-31 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 20:33:00 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 16:50:22 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > > The X packages will be able to use modprobe > > > > config files to enable KMS at run time as required. > > > > This is not for the kernel team to do. > > > FWI