[ubuntu-x] Kernel-Based Mode-Setting

[Timo Aaltonen]

On Sun, 20 Apr 2008, Iain Gatt wrote:

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> Phoronix has an article on kernel-based mode-setting:-
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> http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=12240
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> There is a preview of the technology in Fedora 9. Among the features being introduced: improved suspend/resume, faster VT switching/booting and graphical kernel error messages (Linux BSOD)
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> The article contains youtube links and there are comments in the Phoronix forum.

Yep, a well known and desired feature :) Hopefully we'll get some of this 
goodness for Intrepid.

t