Re: "No devices found" in X
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 19:18:25 +0100
Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:
> On 2010-12-20 18:40 +0100, Camaleón wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:16:42 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> >
> >> On 2010-12-20 17:42 +0100, Camaleón wrote:
> >>> Hummm, I wouldn't like to have an Intel VGA chipset nowadays O:-)
> >>
> >> Why not? My (four years old) laptop has always worked fine, and Intel
> >> chipsets are the only ones where free drivers for very new hardware
> >> exist.
> >
> > Why not? :-)
> >
> > Because I'm seeing (one day and another, in this same list and in other
> > Debian lists) that Intel driver is failing (crashing) very often and
> > doesn't seem to provide an easy method to bypass these problems.
>
> Basically there seem to be three classes of problems:
>
> - Crashes and crash-like bugs like GPU lockups. If you look at the
> hardware the reporters of these bugs have, in 99% of the cases it's an
> old 8xxx chip, and those were _really_ crappy.
Check - but I've had them (though not for a while) with my 945GM:
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16262
> - Failure to load the -intel X video driver because KMS is disabled
> (like in the current thread). This is a rather common
> misconfiguration, but can usually be avoided easily.
Fair enough.
> - Black screen when the i915 kernel module loads. This happened even to
> me some day¹, but the kernel developers are shaking out the KMS bugs,
> so this should become less of a problem.
Okay, but as I've explained, I'm seeing this automatically on boot - no
need to close the lid! Any suggestions?
Celejar
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