On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 8:57 PM Robert Kaiser <kairo@kairo.at> wrote:
Joe schrieb:
The latest Linux 5.9 release candidate won't even let you start the X display server on machines with integrated Intel graphics. Running Linux on machines with integrated Intel graphics has been problematic since Linux 5.0. All those problems remained an issue with Linux 5.9-rc6. Linux 5.9-rc7 takes it one step further, it won't even let you get into a graphical environment without crashing the |i915| kernel display driver for Intel GPU chips. It is a complete and utter disaster for people using integrated Intel graphics.
This doesn't sound true to me, I guess it's different for different setups. Haven't tried the RCs back then, but 5.9.1 does actually run a graphical environment fine most of the time - unless it, at some points, ends up freezing the whole screen and only killing the X server (Crtl+Alt+Bksp twice) and rebooting will reliably work to fix that (as after killing, plasmashell stays around in a state SIGTERM can't stop and while SIGKILL can, it seems like another freeze happens pretty fast again when launching plasma again afterwards, while it may go hours after a reboot).
I can't say I've tried this on openSUSE, but two of my laptops running Fedora 33 with kernel 5.9.10 works perfectly fine. No lockups or anything. And it's powered by Intel graphics. One has Intel 10th generation and the other has Intel 8th generation CPUs with integrated graphics. Both work flawlessly. One with GNOME and another with KDE Plasma. If there's something funky going on here, it'd have to be something patched in the openSUSE kernel specifically. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth!