Re: i915 X lockup

[Sitsofe Wheeler]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 02:49:06PM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 27.2.2009 14:04, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote:
> >On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 02:32:31AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >>On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:28:51 +0100 Jiri Slaby<jirislaby@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> >>
> >>>everytime I run X, it gets stuck. Currently running on mmotm
> >>>2009-02-26-16-58, but I think this is wider problem. I had i915 disabled
> >>>for a long time (until I noticed today).
> >
> >Which version of X are you using? Does it support kernel modesetting? If
> >not, did you disable kernel modesetting in the KConfig file for i915?
> 
> xorg-x11-server-7.4-17.3
> which is
> X.Org X Server 1.5.2
> 
> modesetting enabled:
> CONFIG_DRM_I915_KMS=y
> 
> Which X version is needed for that?

Good question. I can see that 7.4 supports GEM but I see nothing about
kernel modesetting (
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=xorg_74_final&num=1).
I know it's enabled in the Fedora (since Fedora 9) xorgs but I have no
idea about openSUSE (which I believe is what you are using based on
package numbers). Apparently kernel modesetting can be turned off on the
kernel command line by using nomodesetting so that might be a quick
thing to try...

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