Comment 143 for bug 447892

Hi all,
Confirming the same 855GM revision 2 woes here too.

If comment #17 is true then commit e517a5e97080bbe52857bd0d7df9b66602d53c4d should be reverted upstream and marked REGRESSION.

Six months and no fix even after I said it didn't work before it was merged :
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23919#c9
Code that worked perfectly well has been dropped so that i915 works better.
855GM users don't care if your i915 card works much better. The old version worked just fine for us. Why break it and provide absolutely no working fix at our expense.

I tried the drm-intel-big-hammer.patch in this :

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=163170

kernel
(* Mon Jan 11 2010 Kyle McMartin <email address hidden>
- drm-intel-big-hammer: fix IS_I855 macro.)

And while it prevents x freezing immediately after starting, x will only stay up for about an hour before crashing in exactly the same original way.

Is the patch in comment #53 designed to further improve the chances of 855GM actually working again when coupled with the big-hammer patch or is that new patch to be used without the big-hammer patch?

Just to so it's clear, Intel 855 owners have not been able to run current kernel versions with desktop Linux distributions for over six months now.