Comment 144 for bug 447892

> --- Comment #55 from Tony White <email address hidden> 2010-03-24 21:40:03 PST ---
> 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.

Please stop complaining. Chris Wilson and lately I have been beating our
heads against this problem for _weeks_. So yes, your problem _is_ being
looked at, it's just one of these _very_ hard things. And simply reverting
this commit is not an option, because it breaks stability for other
people.

I understand your frustration, after all I almost threw my i855 out the
window many times already ;) So if you want to help out (testing stuff is
always appreciated), I've opened a bz entry to track my latest trials at
fixing this:

http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27187

Patch should apply against drm-intel-next (see the bug report for latest
details). You also need the very latest git version of xf86-video-intel,
Chris has fixed some unrelated hangs recently.