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  1. Bug #566379
  2. Comment #40

Comment 40 for bug 566379

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Akshay Naik (nikefalcon) wrote : Re: [i855] X doesn't start with kernel 2.6.32-21 unless passing i915.modeset=1

I recently used the latest version of Puppy linux(5.0.1) and encountered the same problem, and got throught by using 'i915.modeset=0' in the boot parameters. So this appears to be a bug in the new kernel source itself.