Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: i915 X lockup | From | Eric Anholt <> | Date | Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:20:31 -0800 |
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On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 23:12 +0000, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: > 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@gmail.com> 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...
KMS support is not a feature of the server but of your 2D driver. You want 2.6.2, or things will be bad.
-- Eric Anholt eric@anholt.net eric.anholt@intel.com
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