i810 driver, mergedfb and video crashes

[Alan Hourihane]

I'm sure Ubuntu has xorg packages for 7.1, so you may want to try asking
on their mailing lists.

But the xorg wiki has plenty of info on how to compile things up.

Alan.

On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 12:52 -0400, Mark Beierl wrote:
> Great, I'd like to.  Quick question that probably has a long answer:
> where do I find the docs on how to compile the 1.7.2 driver?  And xorg
> too I suppose as Ubuntu only seems to have 7.0 available.
> 
> Regards,
> Mark
> 
> On Wed, 2006-25-10 at 15:51 +0100, Alan Hourihane wrote: 
> > On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 10:38 -0400, Mark Beierl wrote:
> > > Hello, again!
> > > 
> > > Just wondering if anyone else has experienced this: when I enable
> > > mergedfb, I cannot change to a text mode vt.  If I do, when I go back
> > > to X, it crashes, restarts, and then from that point on going to a
> > > text vt makes the backlight turn out and I can't get back to a usable
> > > display any more.
> > > 
> > > I've tried the 1.6.5 driver and Alan H's debug driver with the exact
> > > same results.
> > > 
> > > What can I do to investigate this further?  I cannot suspend or
> > > hibernate because of this.
> > 
> > How about posting a log file when you've done the VT switch so we can
> > see what's happening ?
> > 
> > Oh, but you can also make sure you are running Xorg 7.1 and the 1.7.2
> > driver first too.
> > 
> > Alan.
> >