Intel (and possibly NVIDIA) Graphics Card Problems

[cynwulf]

Disabling the shadowfb can cause gpu lockups on the 8xx chips with the debian 2.6.32 - a newer kernel and intel driver/drm stack is the better option.

[cc]

another solution for the 82845G video driver problem(s)

put the following in /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "intel"
Option "Shadow" "false"
Option "DRI" "false"
BoardName "Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 03)"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection

The entry above restricts the video driver to do what can result for example in the -logout black screen- problem or -Hang check timer elapsed- error message.

Run "lspci | grep VGA" you will get the "BusID" and the "BoardName". For additional information run the "lspci -v" command.

BTW my tests were sucessfull if I set Option "Shadow" true and not false:

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Option "Shadow" "true"