On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 20:40 +0200, nodata wrote:
Am Montag, den 04.05.2009, 11:10 -0700 schrieb darrell pfeifer:
> NoData,
>
>
> Since 2.6.29.1-46 my Intel i915 video card has been broken
> with Fedora.
>
> Once X starts the machine has basically crashed, switching vts
> gives me
> an epileptically fast cursor then the machine becomes
> unresponsive.
>
> Has anyone else had similar problems?
>
> nd
>
> p.s.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496335
>
> The newer kernels and newer intel driver seem be work better without
> modesetting.
>
> Try nomodeset on the boot line.
nomodeset did the trick. I can now boot and nothing crashes.
Would be nice if modesetting worked though.
Can you post the lspci output for your machine, and
grab /var/log/Xorg.0.log when modesetting is enabled and X starts, and
you experience the problem?
Dan
I get 1280x1024 resolution in X now, despite configuring 1400x1050
in
s-c-d, so everything is stretched wide. Didn't have this problem with
Fedora 10. Makes looking at photos a bit worrying :)