i915 video card: anyone else have it working with rawhide?
nodata
lsof at nodata.co.uk
Mon May 4 19:19:14 UTC 2009
Am Montag, den 04.05.2009, 21:04 +0200 schrieb nodata:
> Am Montag, den 04.05.2009, 14:44 -0400 schrieb Dan Williams:
> > On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 20:40 +0200, nodata wrote:
> > > Am Montag, den 04.05.2009, 11:10 -0700 schrieb darrell pfeifer:
> > > > NoData,
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Since 2.6.29.1-46 my Intel i915 video card has been broken
> > > > with Fedora.
> > > >
> > > > Once X starts the machine has basically crashed, switching vts
> > > > gives me
> > > > an epileptically fast cursor then the machine becomes
> > > > unresponsive.
> > > >
> > > > Has anyone else had similar problems?
> > > >
> > > > nd
> > > >
> > > > p.s. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496335
> > > >
> > > > The newer kernels and newer intel driver seem be work better without
> > > > modesetting.
> > > >
> > > > Try nomodeset on the boot line.
> > >
> > > nomodeset did the trick. I can now boot and nothing crashes.
> > >
> > > Would be nice if modesetting worked though.
> >
> > Can you post the lspci output for your machine, and
> > grab /var/log/Xorg.0.log when modesetting is enabled and X starts, and
> > you experience the problem?
> >
> > Dan
>
> Have posted it on the bugzilla page.
>
> s-c-d is choosing the wrong driver (vesa instead of intel), and if I
> have no xorg.conf I get vesa too.
Correction: if I have no xorg.conf I now get intel.
>
> (Booting with nomodeset and manually setting the driver to intel works
> though)
>
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