[ltp] Re: Beware: xorg-x11-*-fc4.48 breaks i915 on T43

Charles E. "Rick" Taylor, IV linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sat, 17 Sep 2005 16:20:31 -0400


On Sat, 2005-09-17 at 22:00 +0200, Jan Girlich wrote:

> Aren't the i855GM and i915-chipsets pretty similar? At least they use 
> the same driver, don't they?

> Well, if so this may be the same problem me and some other people are 
> suffering from. Do you mind to mail a Xorg.0.log of a crashing xorg-x11?

In my experience, the i855GM has *always* been broken in some way on
Fedora (at least for FC3 and FC4).  For me, the breakage was that 3D
apps would crash either themselves or the X server after a
suspend/resume cycle.  

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