Liam O'Toole <[email protected]> writes: > I have the same graphics card (down to the revision number) as the OP, > and find that it works in squeeze both with and without KMS. The comsole > appearance and behaviour is different, of course. > >> ยน http://wiki.debian.org/KernelModesetting > > That page mentions some known bugs for the card, but a consistently > reliable workaround doesn't seem to be available. Fortunately I haven't > encountered those bugs as yet.
OK, now I'm *really* confused. Last night, I started experiencing problems with the touchpad: the mouse cursor wasn't really responding anymore; X seemed to be interpreting all movements as scroll events, and I couldn't move the cursor in any direction except sporadically. So rather than hibernating, as I usually do, I shut the machine down. This morning, my first boot attempt resulted in a blank screen. That is, I wasn't even getting a console. (X does not start at boot.) So I tried booting with acpi=off, as I have seen a number of sources that say this helps X-related problems on the Macbook go away. The result was: no change in mouse; no change in the graphics resolution; but really slow keyboard interaction (at the console and in X). To fix the mouse, I tried unloading and then reloading the appletouch module, which actually did help a bit, but didn't bring the mouse back to its normal functionality. Rebooted again (without acpi=off). Now I'm in X at native resolution, for the first time since installing Squeeze. Mouse works beautifully. /var/log/Xorg.0.log shows that I am at last using the intel driver. The only line before the driver initialization that I can see is different from previous attempts is: (WW) Falling back to old probe method for vesa ...So should I just hope it lasts? :) Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
