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

[Stan Behrens]

Hallo everyone,

I am not able to use my Sony Vaio VGN-B1VP without adding i915.modeset=1
to the Kernel Commandline. If I am going to try to boot it without that
setting the Laptop freezes as soon as the X-Server comes up. It is
impossible the switch to VT, use the SysRQ-Keys (e.g. Alt-Print-R for
Reboot) or login remotely via OpenSSH.

Here is the interesting part of lspci -vvnn:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device [8086:3582] (rev 02)
	Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device [104d:8192]
	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
	Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx+
	Latency: 0
	Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 9
	Region 0: Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
	Region 1: Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
	Region 2: I/O ports at 1800 [size=8]
	Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 1
		Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1+ D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
		Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
	Kernel driver in use: i915
	Kernel modules: i915

I am sorry for you that keeping KMS disabled for every i855 chipset is
not the best choice you could have made.

Bye, Stan.

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Please blacklist i830 from Kernel mode-setting
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/542208
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