hollunder@... wrote: >> hollunder@..., Sat 2011-11-12 @ 22:42:57-0500: >> [1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22674#c11 > > Thanks Taylor, > I still consider this a bug because this didn't happen for years but > seems to happen every time I boot since 3.1. > > Another workaround is to disable kms by booting with the nomodeset > option. > > Another new issue is that my mousepointer frequently > flickers/disappears and that xv video out in smplayer doesn't work > anymore, but both of those are with the nomodeset option, have yet to > test with kms enabled again.
FWIW, KMS never worked for me (on a desktop, though). The board has a nvidia chipset. All the characters on the screen were displayed "giant mode", ie. I could see only the first few of them, but they were inches wide, with large pixels. So I had to append "nouveau.modeset=0" to the append line of the etc/lilo.conf. clemens
