Comment 373 for bug 541511

I have just tested patch v9 with 2.6.34.3. The patch breaks all the support for Intel graphics. How is this "solution" supposed to work? (Sounds like a bad joke.)

This is what I can see in dmesg:

[drm:i915_init] *ERROR* drm/i915 can't work without intel_agp module!

Presumably, intel_agp is present and loaded. I tried the patch with intel_agp compiled into the kernel and as a loadable module. It failed the same way in both cases. Without the patch, there is no such problem. (But X.org hangs.)

With the patch applied, the i915 driver never works. When compiled as a module, it cannot be loaded manually and says "No such device".

This is an Asus M2400N laptop with an Intel 82852/855GM (rev 02) GPU.

I wanted to switch to another operating system, but it seems that the Intel driver bug is omnipresent:

Linux: unusable (X.org freezes after a while)
FreeBSD: unusable (kernel panic)
OpenSolaris: unusable (X.org freezes during initialization)

Avoiding Intel graphic chipsets is probably the only solution. That's the most important lesson I have learned from all this. A perfectly working driver has been discontinued more than one year ago (April 2009) and no replacement is available so far.

BTW, has anyone tested a recent version of OpenBSD or NetBSD? Is there at least one reasonable (UNIX-like) system that would support old Intel chipsets?