i915 video card: anyone else have it working with rawhide?

Kevin Fenzi kevin at scrye.com
Mon May 4 18:21:48 UTC 2009


On Mon, 4 May 2009 11:10:17 -0700
darrell pfeifer <darrellpf at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?

No. I have a eepc900 here with a 915 in it and (aside from the font
corruption bug) it's working just fine. 

> > p.s. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496335

Added myself there to see if I can help any. 

> The newer kernels and newer intel driver seem be work better without
> modesetting.
> 
> Try nomodeset on the boot line.

Worth a try, but all my intel machines are working fine with
modesetting... 

> darrell

kevin
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