Bug#605961: xserver-xorg-video-intel: kms prevents X starting on Idealpad U350 unless booted in single-user mode
+++ Julien Cristau [2010-12-05 23:43 +0100]:
> On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 20:36:10 +0000, Wookey wrote:
>
> > +++ Julien Cristau [2010-12-05 19:45 +0100]:
> > > On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 04:04:59 +0000, Wookey wrote:
> > >
> > > > Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-686 root=UUID=726cfcad-32c1-4c86-81f7-21b158ae7c00 ro quiet acpi=off
> > >
> > > I would guess acpi=off is what's breaking it.
> >
> > Very good guess. I had in fact just worked this out and tried it. It
> > is indeed the cause. I guess that is a kernel bug? (Maybe it can't work
> > without acpi but it should probably say so rather than just quietly
> > fail or give a 'no such device' error.)
> >
> It's probably not a bug in the kernel driver, lots of stuff depends on
> acpi... We'll shortly have the intel X driver bail so X can start on
> vesa instead in such cases, which should improve things slightly.
OK - that does indeed sound like it should help. Shouldn't gdm3 have
noticed that the X server was repeatedly running for 0.2 seconds and
eventually given up trying to restart? It seemed happy to sit there
indefinately.
Wookey
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