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xserver-xorg-video-intel package

  1. Bug #511001
  2. Comment #31

Comment 31 for bug 511001

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Chris Halse Rogers (raof) wrote : Re: [i855] Lucid Freeze shortly after X startup

Since this has been marked upstream as the same bug as bug #541492, which we're considering working around by blacklisting KMS on that chipset it would be useful if people who are encountering this problem could try booting with KMS disabled (by adding “i915.modeset=0” after “quiet splash” in the kernel boot line).

If there seems to be a consensus favoring blacklisting KMS, then we'll reassign this bug to the kernel and have andy blacklist for us.

If anyone finds that their i855 system works *worse* with KMS turned off for some reason, please shout; I wouldn't expect turning KMS to cause regressions so this would be a surprise, but with i8xx weirder things have been known to happen!