On 29 November 2011 08:36, Matthieu Herrb <mhe...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 02:56:25AM +0200, Ville Valkonen wrote: >> Apparently I do not know how to reply. So, here it goes again. >> As a side note, I have an external screen attached at the moment, >> which is probably clear when checking the Xorg.0.log. >> > > Ok so you're running the newer version of the intel driver (2.12) that > has been in snapshot for some weeks now, and that is going to be > committed soon, since it adds support for more recent Sandybridge > chipsets that are more and more common on new machines. > > One "workaround" is to build the old one from CVS (2.9) and continue to > use this one until the issues with GM45 chipset are fixed (since those > issues are also visible on the upstreams driver on linux machines, > there is some real motivation among intel developpers to fix it). > > -- > Matthieu Herrb
Okay, good to know and thanks for the clarification. Well, I can live without pivot for awhile, at least when I know that it will hit the snapshots at some point :)