Comment 17 for bug 542208

Alright, I'm convinced. Let's focus one bug report per chip, for accounting purposes. It's likely that if/when fixes come they'll be done for chips individually.

While it sounds like KMS works for some i830 users, non-KMS should also work for them, so this blacklisting will result in more total cases booting ok.

Perhaps we may get fixes for i830 in time for release, but i8xx is not a high priority upstream, and so I think I'd rather blacklist it into a working state and then if/when we get a patch to undo the blacklist, than to leave it as is and risk forgetting about it in the pell mell of final release.

Andy - for testing purposes what would people do to unblacklist? Will i915.modeset=1 do it, or would they need to remove a line from the blacklist file, or patch a kernel?