Re: problems with very long alt text

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 12:47:24PM -0300, Jorge Arellano Cid wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 04:51:53PM +0300, Rogut??s Sparnuotos wrote:
> > Jorge Arellano Cid (2011-08-26 09:34):
> > >   I can't get this Debian to go VESA. Hints welcomed.
> > 
> > Perhaps make sure that you have the 'xserver-xorg-video-vesa' package
> 
>   It is there.
> 
> > and
> > try booting with the 'i915.modeset=0' kernel parameter?
> 
>   It made no difference :-P
> 
> > But probably it is
> > more stubborn than that, e.g. only the i915 driver knows how to initialize
> > enough video RAM for the native resolution.
> 
>   I have a "Tiny Core" linux live CD that works without the intel
> driver (AFAICT). No native resolution though.
> 
> 
> > In such a case running
> > `X -depth 8` could work, but delving any deeper is probably not worth the
> > trouble.
> 
>   This  gave  me  an idea, and guess what, if I run with the same
> kernel/intel-driver  that crashes but with a different resolution
> (1024x768) there's no crash.
> 
>   Now,  if  VESA can't do the native resolution, I don't know how
> to get closer to a proof of a bug in the i915 driver.

Maybe with http://sourceforge.net/projects/xtrace/ you can determine
the problematic X11 request.
I can't reproduce the crash btw.

Cheers,
Johannes