On thinkpad R52 the i915 does't work any more: modprobe i915 (delivered from xorg-x11): [drm] Initialized drm 1.0.1 20051102 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:02.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 18 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:02.0 to 64 [drm:drm_fill_in_dev] *ERROR* Cannot initialize the agpgart module. BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 printing eip: e0b84577 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 [#1] Modules linked in: i915 i830 i810 drm agpgart arc4 ieee80211_crypt_wep sha256 aes snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss rfcomm l2cap bluetooth serial_cs ufs battery snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_codec snd_ac97_bus snd_pcm snd_timer snd soundcore snd_page_alloc loop ide_cs pcmcia pcmcia_core ipw2200 ieee80211 ieee80211_crypt tg3 dm_crypt dm_mod CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<e0b84577>] Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00010246 (2.6.17-gentoo-r8 #12) EIP is at drm_lastclose+0xc3/0x2de [drm] eax: 00000000 ebx: fffffff4 ecx: ffffffea edx: 00000000 esi: de79a000 edi: e0b7d94c ebp: e0b7d9c0 esp: d72ebe9c ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process modprobe (pid: 7997, threadinfo=d72ea000 task=de0b8a10) Stack: ffffffea de79a000 e0b7d94c e0b873aa df61dc00 e0b7d9c0 c035a53f 00000040 de79a000 df61dc00 e0b7d9c0 e0b7d94c e0b87570 e0b7d9c0 e0b7dac4 e0b7dac4 ffffffed c022a12d c01c8d9c df61dc00 c01c8dcc e0b7dac4 df61dc00 e0b7daf0 Call Trace: <e0b873aa> drm_fill_in_dev+0x1da/0x1e6 [drm] <c035a53f> pcibios_set_master+0x75/0x79 <e0b87570> drm_get_dev+0x7d/0x109 [drm] <c022a12d> __driver_attach+0x0/0x59 <c01c8d9c> pci_call_probe+0xa/0xc <c01c8dcc> __pci_device_probe+0x2e/0x3f <c01c8dfb> pci_device_probe+0x1e/0x30 <c022a08a> driver_probe_device+0x44/0x95 <c022a163> __driver_attach+0x36/0x59 <c0229888> bus_for_each_dev+0x35/0x59 <c022a197> driver_attach+0x11/0x13 <c022a12d> __driver_attach+0x0/0x59 <c0229c40> bus_add_driver+0x52/0x81 <c022a51d> driver_register+0x76/0x7b <c01c92ad> pci_get_subsys+0xad/0xb5 <c01c8f80> __pci_register_driver+0x37/0x47 <e0b84817> drm_init+0x85/0x134 [drm] <e0b8484e> drm_init+0xbc/0x134 [drm] <c01251a7> sys_init_module+0x87/0x13a <c01022ab> sysenter_past_esp+0x54/0x75 Code: 74 20 31 c0 83 c9 ff 89 d7 f2 ae f7 d1 49 89 d0 e8 1e 71 5b df c7 06 00 00 00 00 c7 46 04 00 00 00 00 8b 96 cc 00 00 00 8d 5a f4 <8b> 7b 0c 83 ef 0c 8d 86 cc 00 00 00 39 c2 74 3d 8d 4b 0c 8b 43 EIP: [<e0b84577>] drm_lastclose+0xc3/0x2de [drm] SS:ESP 0068:d72ebe9c Portage 2.1.1 (default-linux/x86/2006.1, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5 Last Sync: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 06:30:01 +0000 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 1.2.11-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.3 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_US" LC_ALL="en_US" LINGUAS="de en" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X a52 alsa berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth cli crypt cups divx4linux dlloader dri dv dvb dvd dvdread dvi elibc_glibc encode fame fortran g77 gdbm gif gpm gtk imap input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kernel_linux libg++ linguas_de linguas_en mmx mmxext mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl pam pcmcia pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python quicktime readline reflection session spl sse sse2 ssl tcpd tiff truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userland_GNU userlocales video_cards_i810 video_cards_vesa video_cards_vmware vorbis wifi win32codecs xorg xvid zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Please reproduce on gentoo-sources-2.6.18
Actually, testing 2.6.19-rc1 would be a more worthwhile test.
see earlier comments