Bug#569134: xorg: Display will "hang" with a solid colour screen, only fixed by a suspend/resume cycle.
Richard Atterer wrote:
> 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.
>
The latter isn't supported by intel anymore (already dropped in intel
driver 2.10).
Brice
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