Comment 22 for bug 542208

Hallo everyone,

I am not able to use my Sony Vaio VGN-B1VP without adding i915.modeset=1 to the Kernel Commandline. If I am going to try to boot it without that setting the Laptop freezes as soon as the X-Server comes up. It is impossible the switch to VT, use the SysRQ-Keys (e.g. Alt-Print-R for Reboot) or login remotely via OpenSSH.

Here is the interesting part of lspci -vvnn:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device [8086:3582] (rev 02)
 Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device [104d:8192]
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx+
 Latency: 0
 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 9
 Region 0: Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
 Region 1: Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
 Region 2: I/O ports at 1800 [size=8]
 Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 1
  Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1+ D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
  Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
 Kernel driver in use: i915
 Kernel modules: i915

I am sorry for you that keeping KMS disabled for every i855 chipset is not the best choice you could have made.

Bye, Stan.