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xserver-xorg-video-intel package

  1. Bug #554835
  2. Comment #26

Comment 26 for bug 554835

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royden (ryts) wrote : Re: [Bug 554835] Re: [855GM] GPU hang when an application tries to use XVideo

On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 02:53 +0000, Chris Halse Rogers wrote:

> I suspect that you'll find that setting the option
> in /etc/modprobe.d/i915-kms.conf will work if you run “sudo
> update-initramfs -u” after editing the file. I've added that to the
> wiki. This is needed if Ubuntu is loading the i915 driver from the
> initramfs, before trying to mount the root filesystem. It will do this,
> for example, if you've set up an encrypted filesystem for which you need
> to enter the passphrase before it can be mounted.

Thanks, that worked. Never occurred to me as I don't have an encrypted
filesystem. Strangely, it knocks out plymouth (abs no big deal that)
whereas i915.modeset=1 on boot line does not.