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Re: Bug#318663: [i810_drv] uses kernel i915 module which screws console and results in wrong geometry for X.



severity 318663 grave
merge 318663 318218
thanks
This one time, at band camp, David Martínez Moreno said:
> El Miércoles, 20 de Julio de 2005 00:28, Stephen Gran escribió:
> [...]
> > Well, hrmph.  This is looking more like a vgahw bug after all.  After
> > tonight's upgrade to -3, X can use the kernel i915 module and still get
> > correct resolution (and DRI is working again, although glxgears is
> > slower than I remember it being).  However, the console is still
> > absolutely blank.
> >
> > Sorry for duplicating bugs and effort for you all, and thanks for the
> > good work.
> 
> 	;-) Do not worry! It is our 'work'. Have you used the workaround that I send 
> to everyone having problems with blank console?  Replace libvgahw.a with the 
> one in http://people.debian.org/~ender/ in order to try to fix your console. 
> See #318218 for further information.

Yes, that gives me back my VT's, although now glxgears only gets ~32 fps
(down from ~850 fps with the distributed one).  Phooey.  Well, I'd
rather have VT's than GL speed, so thank you for the fix.

Merging this with the others, since they seem to be roughly related.

Take care,
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