Bug 466684

Description of problem:

X won't start with the intel driver, and it even kills the screen and keyboard so that a reboot is necessary. I can ssh into the box and read the logs (see below and attached), but even trying to restart X with the vesa driver from ssh (by going down to runlevel 3, editing xorg.conf, and back to runlevel 5) fails to rescue the system, and Ctrl-Alt F[1-7] does nothing at this point. 


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xorg-x11-drv-i810-2.4.2-9.fc10.x86_64 (from rawhide as of 10/12/08, although it hasn't worked in rawhide since I installed it here around a month ago)

How reproducible: 100%


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set driver to 'intel' in xorg.conf
2. reboot or restart X
3.
  
Actual results:

Black screen and apparently dead keyboard. Switching virtual terminals doesn't work, and my attempts to reboot the system "blind" from the session failed (works over ssh though).

Expected results:

Normal X session using intel driver.

Additional info:

Tailing /var/log/messages shows the following when trying to start X:

 kernel: [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
 kernel: pci 0000:00:02.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
 kernel: [drm:i915_driver_load] *ERROR* failed to enable MSI
 kernel: [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20080730 on minor 0
 kernel: mtrr: type mismatch for d0000000,10000000 old: write-back new: write-combining

Keyboard is a Logitech Illuminated keyboard (new model and doesn't have specific layout config yet)