[Bug 542208] Re: Please blacklist i830 from Kernel mode-setting

[Bryce Harrington]

Alright, I'm convinced.  Let's focus one bug report per chip, for
accounting purposes.  It's likely that if/when fixes come they'll be
done for chips individually.

While it sounds like KMS works for some i830 users, non-KMS should also
work for them, so this blacklisting will result in more total cases
booting ok.

Perhaps we may get fixes for i830 in time for release, but i8xx is not a
high priority upstream, and so I think I'd rather blacklist it into a
working state and then if/when we get a patch to undo the blacklist,
than to leave it as is and risk forgetting about it in the pell mell of
final release.

Andy - for testing purposes what would people do to unblacklist?  Will
i915.modeset=1 do it, or would they need to remove a line from the
blacklist file, or patch a kernel?

** Package changed: xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu Lucid) => linux
(Ubuntu Lucid)

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Please blacklist i830 from Kernel mode-setting
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