Posted: Mon 05 Sep 2011, 20:00
Hello !
Just a report from a Brookdale (rev3) machine ....
There were these rectangular caleidoscopic patches if I on first boot and first restart of X (after personalising the settings) didn't move the mouse - and this is not material for The journal of Irrepeatable Results, I performed the fresh boot drill over and over and ... .
Anyway, tricking my way past this initial obstacle, making a savefile, rebooting and instructing the bootmanager to load the devx - upon next boot the puppeee-blue jwm-theme played tricks on me (yes, confirmed by repetitive experimentation) - Inactive foreground got set the same as Inactive background (quite interesting effect, really ).
Well, I couldn't leave it with that, tried a new approach - set i915.modeset=1 on the kernel line, after which I cannot, in any way, provoke the colourful patches again .
Hope this, as it looks, is the end to my i82845 Brookdale (rev3)-intel/i915 saga
By the way, .... vesa has always been acting up ..... (but, that's with most, if not all, of the recent pups I've tried on this machine ........... so no fret ....... ).
Cheers / MHHP
Just a report from a Brookdale (rev3) machine ....
There were these rectangular caleidoscopic patches if I on first boot and first restart of X (after personalising the settings) didn't move the mouse - and this is not material for The journal of Irrepeatable Results, I performed the fresh boot drill over and over and ... .
Anyway, tricking my way past this initial obstacle, making a savefile, rebooting and instructing the bootmanager to load the devx - upon next boot the puppeee-blue jwm-theme played tricks on me (yes, confirmed by repetitive experimentation) - Inactive foreground got set the same as Inactive background (quite interesting effect, really ).
Well, I couldn't leave it with that, tried a new approach - set i915.modeset=1 on the kernel line, after which I cannot, in any way, provoke the colourful patches again .
Hope this, as it looks, is the end to my i82845 Brookdale (rev3)-intel/i915 saga
By the way, .... vesa has always been acting up ..... (but, that's with most, if not all, of the recent pups I've tried on this machine ........... so no fret ....... ).
Cheers / MHHP