Bug#585625: Switch to i915/KMS lefts console unusable

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 02:29:01PM -0400, Andrew Lee wrote:
> Dear Kernel Team,
> 
> On 2010年07月27日 13:57, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 13:31:00 -0400, Andrew Lee wrote:
> > 
> >> Dear Kernel Team,
> >>
> >> This bug would block a lot of out users to use and install Debian
> >> squeeze on their computer with intel graphic card. Could you please
> >> backport this fix from 2.6.35-rc5 into squeeze stock kernel?
> >>
> > Which fix?
> 
> The fix mentioned in previous message from waldi, says this fixed in
> 2.6.35-rc5.
[...]
 
waldi's system has a GM965 chip whereas you have an 'Ironlake M' integrated
GPU.  These aren't even from the same generation of Intel GPUs, so you
cannot assume that they will be affected from the same driver bugs.
 
Ben.

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