Comment 149 for bug 447892

@All
My comment was aimed only at whoever merged what was merged after I had posted that the very first patch would make this issue worse and whoever made the decision to remove ums support from the i915 gpu driver when 855 support was broken. I was angry at them. No one else. I'm sorry if my shouting was annoying but it appears I am being ignored when I report that something is not working here.
If I stop reporting, I won't get ignored. I can just go ahead and ignore myself instead.

With all the 855 threads on this bugzilla, I had read though a few of them before making that comment and couldn't see anything reassuring me that the problem was even fixable. Because it is an old card, I was guessing that the problem was being ignored and maybe because kms wasn't possible at all on the 855GM or no one with the ability to write code in C for the kernel had an 855GM machine. I guessed wrong, obviously but it wasn't until after I posted here, I found the separate thread Chris, Daniel and legolas are working on.

That's cool guys. You are actually trying to fix this problem and I and every other desktop Linux user with an 855 are in debt to you guys for trying so hard.
Thank You!
I had been patient for six months, I didn't see any chance of anything happening and thought the worst.

So, sorry about the complaining, It wasn't obvious to me that you guys were working on it and I won't post anything more until I can confirm that the latest patch works.
Thanks for all the effort gone into to try to fix this. I do, as I'm sure many others, appreciate it greatly.