Bug#683167: Attempting to start X with intel driver hangs system
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 9:01 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does the squeeze 2.6.32.y kernel reproduce the same trouble? (It should run
> fine on a wheezy/sid system.) Could you retrieve full "dmesg" output
> from the 3.2.y failure?
2.6.32 has never heard of this GPU, so the i915 module doesn't
initialize. The X server exits immediately, saying no device was
found, but doesn't crash. The kernel panics on trying to reboot, but
the stack trace shows a bunch of EFI-related functions, so it's
probably unrelated.
But let's make a note that yes, I installed with EFI boot, which is
probably a lot less tested than legacy BIOS boot. I haven't tried if
it is happier with BIOS boot, I could do that tomorrow if you think
it's important.
3.2 behavior is now similar: i915.ko doesn't know the GPU, and X just
exits because i915 isn't there. My last tests were with a 2.19 X
driver, presumably the update to 2.20 made the 3.2 crash go away.
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