On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 22:41:16 +0100, Gilles Sadowski wrote: > Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel > Version: 2:2.99.917+git20151217-1~exp1 > Severity: important > > Dear Maintainer, > > As you advised here: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=807598 > I upgraded to the kernel 4.3, and removed the > i915.preliminary_hw_support=1 > kernel command-line argument. > > Matters got worse. > > I currently use the "wdm" session manager. > When logging on the graphical console, the desktop session is incompletely > set up: the background image appears but nothing else for many seconds from > the expected "cinnamon" environement; then the mouse cursor appears (a > right-click shows a contextual menu). > > When I switch to a text console a kernel stacktrace appears. > > After switching back and forth a few times, the xserver crashes (blank > screen on the graphical console, keyboard frozen). > This also happened when trying to restart the session manager > with > # /etc/init.d/wdm restart > > Is this a known problem? > > Currently, my machine is mostly unusable with the i915 driver (no hardware > acceleration with kernel < 4.3, no graphical desktop with kernel = 4.3). > > Would you recommend that I forego using the onboard graphics? > Please follow https://01.org/linuxgraphics/documentation/how-report-bugs to file a bug with intel. Let us know the bug number for tracking. Thanks, Julien
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