radeon driver heading in wrong direction :-(.

[Suvayu Ali]

On Saturday 06 February 2010 10:51 AM, Brian Mury wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-02-06 at 16:02 +0000, Terry Barnaby wrote:
>> I have machines with: ATI RV280, ATI RV535, ATI X300, Intel 945G and some
>> others. All of these have issues with F12, mainly with 3D but both the
>> ATI RV280 and ATI X300 cause occasional system lockup's requiring a
>> reboot in 2D and also kernel panics.
>
> Terry, are you using UMS or KMS? I have stability issues with UMS. KMS
> seems much better stability wise (performance wise is the other way
> around).

A bit OT, but what is the difference/pros-cons between User Mode and 
Kernel Mode Setting? Can anyone refer me to some _not too technical_ 
resource?

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