i810 driver, mergedfb and video crashes

[Alan Hourihane]

On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 10:38 -0400, Mark Beierl wrote:
> Hello, again!
> 
> Just wondering if anyone else has experienced this: when I enable
> mergedfb, I cannot change to a text mode vt.  If I do, when I go back
> to X, it crashes, restarts, and then from that point on going to a
> text vt makes the backlight turn out and I can't get back to a usable
> display any more.
> 
> I've tried the 1.6.5 driver and Alan H's debug driver with the exact
> same results.
> 
> What can I do to investigate this further?  I cannot suspend or
> hibernate because of this.

How about posting a log file when you've done the VT switch so we can
see what's happening ?

Oh, but you can also make sure you are running Xorg 7.1 and the 1.7.2
driver first too.

Alan.