Bug#750605: screen goes berserk, had to downgrade

[Vincent Cheng <vcheng@debian.org>]

On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 4:09 PM, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel
> Version: 2:2.99.911+git20140529-1~exp2
> Severity: grave
>
> 2:2.99.911+git20140529-1~exp2 makes screen go berserk.
> 2:2.99.911+git20140529-1~exp1 works fine.
>

This would likely be related to SNA being made default. You can work
around this with the following xorg.conf snippet:

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Intel Graphics"
    Driver      "intel"
    Option      "AccelMethod"  "uxa"
EndSection

Please file a bug report upstream [1].

Regards,
Vincent

[1] https://01.org/linuxgraphics/documentation/how-report-bugs