On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 19:18:25 +0100 Sven Joachim <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2010-12-20 18:40 +0100, Camaleón wrote: > > > On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:16:42 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > > > >> On 2010-12-20 17:42 +0100, Camaleón wrote: > >>> Hummm, I wouldn't like to have an Intel VGA chipset nowadays O:-) > >> > >> Why not? My (four years old) laptop has always worked fine, and Intel > >> chipsets are the only ones where free drivers for very new hardware > >> exist. > > > > Why not? :-) > > > > Because I'm seeing (one day and another, in this same list and in other > > Debian lists) that Intel driver is failing (crashing) very often and > > doesn't seem to provide an easy method to bypass these problems. > > Basically there seem to be three classes of problems: > > - Crashes and crash-like bugs like GPU lockups. If you look at the > hardware the reporters of these bugs have, in 99% of the cases it's an > old 8xxx chip, and those were _really_ crappy. Check - but I've had them (though not for a while) with my 945GM: http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16262 > - Failure to load the -intel X video driver because KMS is disabled > (like in the current thread). This is a rather common > misconfiguration, but can usually be avoided easily. Fair enough. > - Black screen when the i915 kernel module loads. This happened even to > me some day¹, but the kernel developers are shaking out the KMS bugs, > so this should become less of a problem. Okay, but as I've explained, I'm seeing this automatically on boot - no need to close the lid! Any suggestions? Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
