Bug#528551: xserver-xorg-video-intel: hang on 915GM at startup (Thinkpad X41, KMS)

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

Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel
> Version: 2:2.7.1-1
> Severity: normal
>
> Hello,
>
> I enabled KMS using 
>
> 	# echo options i915 modeset=1 > /etc/modprobe.d/i915 
> 	# reboot
>
> (This enables KMS, doesn't it?  The log file still reports that EXA is used!?)
>   

KMS needs UXA, so I don't think you have KMS :)

And KMS needs i915 to be loaded from initramfs, so it may to be too
early to read /etc/modprobe.d/i915

Does it change anything if you don't do the above ?

Did Intel 2.7.0 work better ?

Brice