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

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Hi Bastian,

Bastian Blank wrote:

> I tried to switch to inteldrmfb aka KMS with the following commands:
> | rmmod i915
> | modprobe i915 modeset=1
>
> After that, the console was black, without even a cursor. The same also
> seems to happen if it is loaded with this setting on startup. The only
> way to recover the console is to start the xserver and switch back.

Do current squeeze kernels do this?  And do current sid kernels
reliably not do it?