xf86-video-intel problem

[Jesse Barnes]

On Tuesday, January 22, 2008 10:37 am Gergely Gábor wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I have an IBM Thinkpad R50e computer, that runs gentoo linux, and sleeping
> (and wakingup succesfully) is only possible with xf86-video-i810 version
> 1.6.5, as I get i830_wait_lp_ring (or similiarly named) errors quite rarely
> (i think this has to do something with newer kernels, as with older ones i
> got them occasionally even with this driver) _AND_ this is the only version
> hat can make my screens wake up successfully.
>
> to be able to do this, i have to do some hacks: save the video bios to a
> tempfile, and use the VbeRestore option int he driver field of xorg.conf.
>
> I have tried the git head version of the intel driver yesterday, and it did
> wake up after acpi s3 sleep, even without the bios saving/restoring hack,
> but the screen go messed up, artifacts didn't disappear and so on. What
> should I do, to help you remove this bug? I'd really like to update to to
> the new intel driver, as i'd like to hold some presentations, and the
> current i810switch stuff doesn't always work well, XRandr would be better I
> think.

We'll need to see the X log, xorg.conf and ideally a picture of the corruption 
you're seeing.  Can you file a bug against the intel driver with that info?

Thanks,
Jesse