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

[nodata]

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.

I get 1280x1024 resolution in X now, despite configuring 1400x1050 in
s-c-d, so everything is stretched wide. Didn't have this problem with
Fedora 10. Makes looking at photos a bit worrying :)