@oblong: What adding the “modetest” option to i915 is doing is causing an error which prevents it from loading - the module doesn't recognise that option, so fails to load.
This ends up in the X server selecting a different driver, probably vesa, which won't have the same problems the intel driver has. -- MASTER: [i845] GPU lockup (apport-crash) (Should KMS be blacklisted?) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/541492 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is the registrant for xf86-video-intel. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
