Comment 36 for bug 433326

Could this be of any help?
(tormod)

http://newyork.ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=8091551&postcount=1208
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 Please RTFM thank you
I am glad there are so many helpful people here and people willing to test out the latest development drivers. However there is a lot of misinformed and bad advice given in the forums.

   1. Read random postings with a great portion of skepticism and caution
   2. Be careful when posting information, at least take the time to look up information given in earlier posts and try to find official documentation

Now, to the issues some people have with the latest -intel drivers from xorg-edgers:

   1. It is all explained on the xorg-edgers PPA page
   2. It has also been reported in launchpad #447181 (how I found this thread)
   3. There is nothing wrong with the driver that needs to / will be fixed
   4. The latest -intel drivers have dropped support for UMS (user mode setting) and only use KMS (kernel mode setting) so the kernel has to run with KMS enabled
   5. The Jaunty kernel needs the "i915.modeset=1" boot option to enable KMS
   6. Karmic kernels have KMS enabled by default. They also contain many fixes to the kernel part of the intel driver stack.

I see that some people simply refuse to look up the PPA page (it is linked from the instructions in the first post) so I will explain:

The xorg-edgers PPA tracks the work of the developers. It can be expected that it breaks for some users from time to time, since any developer can not test his changes on all hardware. You are providing this testing and it is highly appreciated. The idea is that you provide bug reports if something does not work. It is also expected that you know how to revert to the last working version in this case.
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