Bug#558237: linux-source-2.6.32: X with xserver-xorg-video-intel does not work any longer

[Ludovico Cavedon <ludovico.cavedon@gmail.com>]

Emanuele Aina wrote:
> I have the same problem reported by Ludovico and, as noted in the
> upstream bug report already pointed out by Reinhard [1], reducing the
> amount of ram from 4G to something smaller (e.g. 3.5G) with the
> mem=3500M kernel boot parameter causes the bug to disappear and can be
> used as a temporary workaround.

Confirming that mem=3500M makes the issue disappears, when KMS is
disabled. With KMS enable the black boxes disappear, but the display
keeps flickering (but I think is would be another bug).

Thanks,
Ludovico