From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OTrQv-0008EG-8g for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:10:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1A010E07AE; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:09:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp208.alice.it (smtp208.alice.it [82.57.200.104]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3A66E07AE for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:09:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from infra.agr.fm (79.24.116.99) by smtp208.alice.it (8.5.124.08) id 4C1A271600D4D831 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:09:20 +0200 Received: from [192.168.64.9] (silver.agr.fm [192.168.64.9]) by infra.agr.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id 592575DD120 for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:09:19 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4C2AED9F.5070404@alyf.net> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:09:19 +0200 From: Andrea Conti User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Windows/20100228) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] X-Server-1.8 and Intel i915 modesetting stability References: <4C28D22E.50005@f_philipp.fastmail.net> In-Reply-To: <4C28D22E.50005@f_philipp.fastmail.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a0461173-3924-4f69-a27c-f0c865da6160 X-Archives-Hash: 72c4fa35d06967a8dfb70e8dbef2a14d > 1. On boot up, the screen goes completely black until the xserver is > started. KMS provides its own framebuffer console driver -- disable any other framebuffer drivers such as (u)vesafb and enable FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_DETECT_PRIMARY under drivers/graphics support/console display driver support. Also make sure you remove any vga= or video= options from the kernel commandline in your bootloader configuration. You will get a _fast_ console with native resolution (no more horribly stretched fonts!) BTW, everything KMS-related should be compiled in rather than built as a module. > 2. Once the XServer runs, it is extremely unstable. It gets killed and > restarted by XDM every few minutes. dmesg and Xorg.0.log haven't shown > anything suspicious. I've been using 1.8 since it made it into the tree and I must say I did not encounter any problems. Did you recompile every installed packege in x11-drivers after the switch to 1.8? Here I'm running ~amd64 with tuxonice-sources and xorg-server-1.8.1.902 on an Acer 2930 (GMA 4500MHD, 1200x800). I use KDE but I don't think that is relevant. andrea