Bug#569134: xorg: Display will "hang" with a solid colour screen, only fixed by a suspend/resume cycle.

[Richard Atterer <richard@2010.atterer.net>]

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:35:44AM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> Is this on 945GM?  If so, it can be worked around by passing 
> i915.powersave=0 to the kernel, and was fixed for me by 
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/intel-gfx/2010-February/005763.html

Yes, it's 945GM. lspci says:
VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express 
Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])

So i915.powersave=0 is better than using i915.modeset=0 ? The latter seems 
to work for me so far.

Cheers,

  Richard

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