Bug#482830: xserver-xorg-video-intel: Corrupted Rendering using Parameter "Virtual" on 82852/855GM

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Sebastian Hofmann wrote:
> Brice Goglin wrote:
>   
>> If 2.3.0 is broken and 2.2.0 works fine, you should do:
>>     git bisect start
>>     git bisect good xf86-video-intel-2.2.0
>>     git bisect bad xf86-video-intel-2.3.0
>>
>> Then git will choose a commit to test (in the middle of the above
>> range). Run autogen, make and make install. If it works, you run "git
>> bisect good", if it breaks, run "git bisect bad". Git will propose
>> another commit in the middle of the remaining range. Do the same test,
>> ... again and again until git finds the exact commit breaking things.
>>
>> When it is done, git bisect --reset
>>     
>
> The result of git bisect is:
>
> commit 5a06388bf83c97f49565ad482161645f996492c7
> Author: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@nietzche.virtuousgeek.org>
> Date:   Thu Mar 13 18:12:00 2008 -0700
>
>     Initial panel fitting changes
>
>     Basic support for panel fitting.
>     (cherry picked from commit 05cf07071e25f84dec3476a9bed7235ed50cd249)
>
>
> But I wonder that in the bad cases the screen remained completely black
> and did not react to any keystroke, so I had to restart the computer. I
> could not reproduce the behaviour I originally reported while bisect...
>   

I see some related commits in latest upstream git. Can you try intel
2.3.2 from unstable? If it does not help, can you try to build the
upstream git?

Brice