On 2010-12-20 18:40 +0100, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:16:42 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> On 2010-12-20 17:42 +0100, Camaleón wrote: >>> Hummm, I wouldn't like to have an Intel VGA chipset nowadays O:-) >> >> Why not? My (four years old) laptop has always worked fine, and Intel >> chipsets are the only ones where free drivers for very new hardware >> exist. > > Why not? :-) > > Because I'm seeing (one day and another, in this same list and in other > Debian lists) that Intel driver is failing (crashing) very often and > doesn't seem to provide an easy method to bypass these problems.
Basically there seem to be three classes of problems: - Crashes and crash-like bugs like GPU lockups. If you look at the hardware the reporters of these bugs have, in 99% of the cases it's an old 8xxx chip, and those were _really_ crappy. - Failure to load the -intel X video driver because KMS is disabled (like in the current thread). This is a rather common misconfiguration, but can usually be avoided easily. - Black screen when the i915 kernel module loads. This happened even to me some day¹, but the kernel developers are shaking out the KMS bugs, so this should become less of a problem. > I like free drivers... if they "work". One thing is that you don't get > many FPS with your Intel card but another thing is that you cannot even > get into your desktop because xorg server is crashing on start-up. I think you're overestimating the problems. And it's not like the drivers (both the free and the proprietary ones) for Radeon and NVidia cards have fewer bugs. Sven ¹ https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15205 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87sjxsi9zi....@turtle.gmx.de