Re: VGA cards

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:54:53 +0100
Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:

> On 2009-12-14 13:28 +0100, Camaleón wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:17:59 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:

...

> >> The best bet is probably
> >> to use Intel graphics, *except* GMA500¹.  
> >
> > IIRC, some Intel cards were having *very* ugly problems with xorg (EXA/
> > UXA issue) not so long ago...
> 
> Yes, but with kernels >= 2.6.30.5 and xserver-xorg-video-intel >= 2.8
> these problems should be gone.  I am very happy with the Intel graphics
> on my laptop now.

I've discovered that kernel modesetting seems to consistently crash my
945GM within a few minutes of starting X:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25681

Celejar
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