On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Linus Torvalds

 wrote:

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> On Tue, 30 Sep 2008, Dave Airlie wrote:

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>> If it is X related then its both a kernel + X server issue, the e1000e

>> driver opens the barn door, the X server drives the horses through it.

>

> Are you sure? There was a mandriva report abou NVM corruption on an e100

> too (that one apparently just caused PXE failure, the networking worked

> fine).

Well from a purely empirical standpoint, I've been running new X

against that laptop for a long time,

and others have the same laptop, so I think its a problem with the

e1000e driver putting the card into a state which allows

X to do bad things. I think X maybe causing issues on other hw, like

e100 and some realtek.. Also when we say X I think it looks like Intel

driver interaction issues,

as I said I'm running the same stuff on my ATI gpu laptop with e1000e

and haven't had any problems.
But I'm leaving this up to Intel, I don't think HP will take it too

kindly if I keep returning my laptop.
Dave.

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