[ale] thinking about switching away from ubuntu

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Wed Apr 14 11:21:55 EDT 2010


On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> btw: if anyone knows a simple answer, what is KMS?
>
> Kraps Most Systems

:-)

OK. It's actually Kernel Mode Settings. Google "kernel kms" for links to
specific docs and articles. Basically, the X mode moves from (semi)user/X
space to kernel space. For most proprietary binary drivers, this is either
already handled (nvidia current) or breaks royally (nvidia legacy).

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