Bug#598624: xserver-xorg-video-intel: 830M crashes with 'Failed to submit batchbuffer: Input/output error'
On Fre, 2010-10-01 at 12:36 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> Am 01.10.2010 um 12:19 schrieb Alexander Heinlein:
>
> > Another thing that bothers me with the new kernels is that I have to enable
> > KMS to use the intel driver, but disable it if I want to use vesa (the
> > current fallback for me). Changing the bootloader configuration and
> > rebooting just to switch the graphics driver doesn't seem right.
>
> You can use fbdev instead of vesa as fallback, it works fine with KMS
> (but does not do any mode setting, so you can't change the resolution).
FYI, the X fbdev driver can switch modes just fine, any problems with
that are more likely due to the KMS support in the kernel.
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