We should consider if it makes sense to blacklist KMS for this chipset.
Jerry has indicated that by booting his system with i915.modeset=0 that it worked around the issue. I would like to see several more people confirming that it did similarly for them. Please test this.
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 i845 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!
We should consider if it makes sense to blacklist KMS for this chipset.
Jerry has indicated that by booting his system with i915.modeset=0 that it worked around the issue. I would like to see several more people confirming that it did similarly for them. Please test this.
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 i845 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!