XServer 1.18 on Lenovo T520/SandyBridge: need to load i915kms manually

[Kevin Oberman]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 8:44 AM, Mathias Picker <
Mathias.Picker at virtual-earth.de> wrote:

> Thanks for the update, it's working fine on my X230t/IvyBridge using
> the modesetting driver!
>
> I had some troubles on my T520: only the vesa driver worked, so I'm was
> at a wrong resolution and without my external monitor :( :( :(
>
> After some testing I discovered that everything starts to work
> if I load i915kms before starting X. So it works for me now, too.
>

This is a known issue and was documented in UPDATING 20170211.
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