Bug#567965: i915: KMS framebuffer fails to work, only X works

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

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On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 04:10:32PM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> Package: linux-2.6
> Version: 2.6.32-5
> Severity: important
> 
> Since a few days, my screen stays black except for VT7 where X is
> running. As soon as the kernel is loaded, the screen turns black
> until X is loaded. When X is loaded, switching to anything else
> than VT7 just causes the mouse pointer to disappear, but the
> image from X is still displayed.
> 
> I don't know when exactly this started to happen, but I
> know that my last kernel update was 2.6.32-3 => 2.6.32-5.

There have been many changes to the KMS code, does this still occur with
current sid kernel and X.org?

Cheers,
        Moritz