Bug#443315: xserver-xorg-video-vesa: switching the resolution crashes the xserver
Christian T. Steigies wrote:
> As I said, I upgraded to unstable and got no video at all with the intel
> driver, and I think also with the vesa driver. I just installed a testing
> snapshot on a spare partition from scratch and the intel driver works great,
> no crash, 32 bpp, resolution switching, and a working console. So why
> didn't this work when I upgraded xorg in the etch system? Do I need to
> upgrade the kernel as well? More than the kernel?
>
Yes, the kernel might matter here, since it provides "AGP GART" support
but only with a recent kernels for i965 boards, and it seems very
important for memory allocations in the driver.
Brice
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