Bug#568207: Bug still exists in latest versions
This is a quick report: I just upgraded to xserver-xorg-video-intel
2:2.11.0-1 and Linux kernel 2.6.34-rc5 on my ThinkPad X30 laptop (830MG
graphics adapter). X works fine if there is no external monitor
attached to the laptop when I start the X server. If there is an
external monitor attached to the laptop when I start the X server, X
produces a blank black screen on both the laptop and the external
monitors, and there are no kernel error messages:
kernel: i915 0000:00:02.0: setting latency timer to 64
kernel: [drm] set up 15M of stolen space
kernel: [drm] initialized overlay support
kernel: fb: conflicting fb hw usage inteldrmfb vs VESA VGA - removing generic driver
kernel: fb1: inteldrmfb frame buffer device
kernel: registered panic notifier
kernel: [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20080730 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 0
The system still responds to SysRq keys after the X malfunction.
Note that xserver-xorg-video-intel 2.11.0 *requires* kernel modesetting,
so users who are still on 830MG may want to stick to 2:2.9.1-3 (which
does not require KMS) until the problem is resolved.
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Chuan-kai Lin
http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~cklin/
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