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From: Willie Wong <wwong@××××××××××××××.EDU>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] X-Server-1.8 and Intel i915 modesetting stability
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:49:42
Message-Id: 20100629114836.GA10781@math.princeton.edu
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] X-Server-1.8 and Intel i915 modesetting stability by Florian Philipp
1 On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 06:47:42PM +0200, Florian Philipp wrote:
2 > 1. On boot up, the screen goes completely black until the xserver is
3 > started. While I know my system long enough to recognize common boot
4 > errors by watching the disk and peripheral device activity, I wouldn't
5 > like to make a filesystem recovery blindfolded ;)
6
7 Any dmesg output?
8
9 >
10 > 2. Once the XServer runs, it is extremely unstable. It gets killed and
11 > restarted by XDM every few minutes. dmesg and Xorg.0.log haven't shown
12 > anything suspicious.
13 >
14 > In the end that means that I'm currently stuck with xorg-server-1.7 and
15 > no modesetting.
16 >
17
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19 Willie W. Wong wwong@××××××××××××××.edu
20 Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire
21 et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton

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Re: [gentoo-user] X-Server-1.8 and Intel i915 modesetting stability Florian Philipp <lists@××××××××××××××××××.net>