Bug#564807: xserver-xorg-video-intel: display corruption and white screen with KMS
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 18:39:03 +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 08:30:24AM +0000, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 00:38:35 +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:
> >
> > > When KMS is enabled, sometimes the display will seem to shift to the
> > > left or right whilst I'm running X. This happens fairly frequently.
> > > Eventually, the display will turn all white, and I will be unable to do
> > > anything: the mouse cursor (along with everything else) is gone and
> > > changing VTs does not work. I have not tested if the machine is able to
> > > be SSHed into.
> > >
> > Does this also happen with i915.powersave=0 on the kernel command line?
>
> I'll test. Do I need to put this on the kernel command line, or can I
> just specify it in /etc/modprobe.d/i915-kms.conf?
>
Should work either way.
Cheers,
Julien
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