On Fri, 14 Jan 2011, Greg Freemyer wrote:

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Robert P. J. Day [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Fri, 14 Jan 2011, Greg Freemyer wrote:

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Add "i915.modeset=0" to your boot command line. ?At least in 2.6.34
timeframe it used an alternate driver.

?do you know *which* alternate driver, so i make sure i compile it
in?

UMS, but I was using pre-compiled kernels, so I don't know what the
config option was.

  victory is mine!  just built a new kernel from latest git pull,
changed nothing, installed, booted and it works.  no idea what's
changed or what fixed it.

rday

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