Comment 8 for bug 563277

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Christiansen (happylinux) wrote :

I have to support Bryce Harrington in comment #7, running kernel 2.6.31-21.32 with KMS black listed on a couple of different i855 based ThinkPads crashes X right away on X-startup and locks the box completely. Downgrading to kernel 2.6.31-21.31or using i915.modeset=1 in GRUB and the box runs fine for hours, even with the compiz enabled by the latest xserver-xorg-video-intel package.

This means that users are unable to boot LiveCD at all without knowing that you need to set the i915.modeset=1 as a kernel parameter. So may I suggest, that if this isn't changed, as a absolute minimum this is noted in the final Release notes ?.