Bug#1000481: upgrade-reports: Bullseye kernel hangs while initialising i915 gpu driver on old intel graphic chip

Control: reassign -1 src:linux 5.10.70-1

Hi Ben,

On 23-12-2021 23:46, Ben Mueller wrote:
> On 12/23/21 9:05 PM, Paul Gevers wrote:
>>> I solved the problem by inserting a boot parameter "intel_iommu=off" to
>>> grub. With this parameter the kernel from bullseye
>>> linux-image-5.10.0-9-amd64 was able to boot properly and the graphic was
>>> fine on console and with x. The kernel from buster did not need this
>>> boot parameter.
>>
>> Which package has the driver you're using? I propose we reassign this
>> package to that package for further investigation.
> 
> The i915 gpu driver belongs to the kernel: linux-image-amd64.

So, I reassign the bug report to the linux source package.

> I first saw the problem with version 5.10.70-1
> (linux-image-5.10.0-9-amd64). Now I'm using version 5.10.84-1
> (linux-image-5.10.0-10-amd64) which also works fine using the boot
> parameter "intel_iommu=off". Although I did not try this version in the
> default configuration without this boot parameter.

It would help the Debian linux maintainers a lot if you could/want to 
try this with the latest version in bullseye. Just in case it got 
already fixed without going noticed inside Debian.

Paul