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From: Florian Philipp <lists@××××××××××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] X-Server-1.8 and Intel i915 modesetting stability
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:50:18
Message-Id: 4C2A4042.80205@f_philipp.fastmail.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] X-Server-1.8 and Intel i915 modesetting stability by Willie Wong
1 Am 29.06.2010 13:48, schrieb Willie Wong:
2 > On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 06:47:42PM +0200, Florian Philipp wrote:
3 >> 1. On boot up, the screen goes completely black until the xserver is
4 >> started. While I know my system long enough to recognize common boot
5 >> errors by watching the disk and peripheral device activity, I wouldn't
6 >> like to make a filesystem recovery blindfolded ;)
7 >
8 > Any dmesg output?
9 >
10
11 What, you mean after going blank? Not that I would have noticed. If you
12 mean after the xserver crash, see three sentences below ;)
13
14 >>
15 >> 2. Once the XServer runs, it is extremely unstable. It gets killed and
16 >> restarted by XDM every few minutes. dmesg and Xorg.0.log haven't shown
17 >> anything suspicious.
18 >>
19 >> In the end that means that I'm currently stuck with xorg-server-1.7 and
20 >> no modesetting.
21 >>
22 >

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Re: [gentoo-user] X-Server-1.8 and Intel i915 modesetting stability Willie Wong <wwong@××××××××××××××.EDU>