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Bug#536011: xserver-xorg-video-intel: Display corruption and X crashes after a dist-upgrade that didn't touch any X related package.



On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 09:15:52PM +0200, Guus Sliepen wrote:

> After dist-upgrading several machines, I got display corruption and
> occasional hangs and crashes on two machines that have Intel graphics chips.
> [...] Both have recent kernels with KMS enabled, [...]

Booting with KMS disabled (by adding the i915.modeset=0 kernel boot parameter)
solves the problems.

> The packages touched in the last upgrade of that specific machine were:
> 
> [...] libc6-i386 libc6-dev libc6 [...] pciutils [...] libpci3 [...] locales

I tried downgrading the above packages, but that had no effect.

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
      Guus Sliepen <guus@debian.org>

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