Is It Worth Installing F9 Alpha?

[John Summerfield]

Michael Schwendt wrote:

>>
>> Isn't that good news? That _is_ good news.
> 
> That only works if the video driver manages to reset the video mode. With
> the X breakage, it didn't. Several users reported they had to "type in the
> dark" in the virtual console in order to reboot. I needed to reboot to
> run-level 3 to get to see the virtual console.
> 

What video?
This was getting currupted two or three days ago, when I switched to a 
tty from X. Seems okay now.
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82Q963/Q965 
Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
         Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 2801
         Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- 
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
         Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- 
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
         Latency: 0
         Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
         Region 0: Memory at f0400000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
         Region 2: Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
         Region 4: I/O ports at 1100 [size=8]
         Capabilities: [90] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- 
Queue=0/0 Enable-
                 Address: 00000000  Data: 0000
         Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2
                 Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA 
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
                 Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

[summer at localhost ~]$

Here's the relevant drive para:
Section "Device"
         Identifier  "Videocard0"
         Driver      "intel"
EndSection

I've not changed kernel in weeks, every time I try I get one that 
doesn't boot.