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

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Mon May 4 18:31:20 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 12:21 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> 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. 

Dell Latitude D410 here (i915 as well) and aside from the glyph
corruption bug, mine is working fine too.

dan

> > > 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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