Comment 7 for bug 563277

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote : Re: [Bug 563277] Re: Please blacklist older 8xx cards from using KMS

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 09:50:32PM -0000, Chris Jones wrote:
> I have a Thinkpad X40 (i855, PCI id 8086:3582) which only sees light use (1-2 hours a day), but has not displayed any kind of X crashing since it was upgraded to Lucid at beta2.
> However, with this blacklisted kernel, it is unable to start X, I just get a black screen and no response to SysRq.

We've seen several people reporting this, that KMS makes it work and UMS
doesn't.

This seems quite perplexing to me. AFAIK with UMS turned on, things
should work as they did in... Jaunty? Whenever we last had UMS on by
default.

I think we should doublecheck that this blacklist did in fact fix
reported issues for people as intended.