You are not the one paying the fixers unfortunately. The only influence you have is what Matthieu suggested.
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 06:10:39AM -0800, J.C. Roberts wrote: > On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:35:58 +0100 Matthieu Herrb <mhe...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 10:56 AM, J.C. Roberts > > <list-...@designtools.org> wrote: > > > > > > > > Is there anything else I could do to help fix this instability bug? > > > > > > > Fill a bug to bugs.freedesktop.org (product Xorg) with as many details > > as posslbe, and pray that the intel guys eventually take support for > > their older chips seriously. > > > > And for now switch to the vesa driver if you need a working X in this > > machine. > > > > As long as I don't stop and restart X, or switch virtual terminals, your > suggestion of adding: > > Option "AccelMethod" "XAA" > > to the DEVICE section works fairly well. None the less, this really > needs to get fixed. > > I searched the bug database on freedesktop.org and got countless hits. > To *me* it seems this is actually one big bug with a lot of possible > manifestations (descriptions). I'm working on getting a well written > and more importantly, complete, bug report done. > > On release we can expect a lot of i810(4)->intel(4) messages on misc, > as well as similar bug reports on intel(4). > > -- > J.C. Roberts
