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[piwacet <davrosmeglos@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi.  I believe I have this bug as well on a macbook 2,1.

I have a fresh install of 9.04 and followed the instructions for
upgrading to KMS here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/KernelModeSetting

(except that I did not edit /etc/modprobe.d/i915-kms.conf or update
initramfs as the kernel (2.6.30-10-generic) has kms enabled by default.)
This is on x86_64.

When I boot, the screen goes black, after 15 seconds it flickers and
then the login screen appears with a corrupt mouse.  I can move the
mouse, but can not type anything or click on anything.  Only hard-reset
will recover the computer.  During this time, I can ssh into the
computer, and execute commands from the terminal, but oddly as root
'reboot' and 'halt' do not shut down the computer.  I can kill the
X-server, but that doesn't recover the computer.

Booting with nomodeset kernel option seems to work fine.

I've tried KMS on gentoo with the vanilla 2.6.30.1 kernel with same
problem.

Looking around the internet, there are only a few other people reporting
this problem, and I've noticed they seem to have apple hardware of
similar vintage.  I believe this bug report is related:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=494390

lspci 8086:27a2 or 8086:27a3 as the video card ID seems to be
consistently implicated, although I believe there are some people with
this card who do not have apple hardware that have kms working.

With Gentoo, if I do not have xmd (or similar) running at boot, the
computer will boot to console; the switch to KMS terminal happens during
the boot process as expected, but when I type 'startx' from the command
line, the same problem happens.

I will attach various files that I will try to get when ssh'ed into the
computer when it is frozen.

Thanks!

** Bug watch added: Red Hat Bugzilla #494390
   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=494390

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GDM: Can't log in with KMS enabled
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