An engineer's life around Kyoto

My laptop PC is fairly old and running Debian wheezy. Though it's not powerful, I am trying to run Xen 4.1. At my first trial, Xen dom0 kernel itself launched without a trouble, but just after the X server started the display was filled with textual black and white patterns and lost reaction to keyboard and mouse input. I got disappointed and kept away from Xen for a while. Today, I tried again Xen 4.1 following the "Google Teacher"'s work around for some kinds of Intel's integrated video controller. Before launching dom0, I added the following setting to /etc/X11/xorg.conf: Section "Device"         Identifier "myvideodevice"         Driver "intel"         Option "AccelMethod" "sna" EndSection After I checked that the setting is actually effective by restarting X server and looking into X server's log messages,  I reboot the system and launched dom0. As before, th...

The Debian's next major version 'wheezy' is planned to be released this year. Before the release, I have already upgraded my home PC to wheezy. But after I upgraded the latest kernel, I have experienced kernel crashes frequently. Owing to the detailed review and good inspiration of the kernel maintainers, the cause was detected shortly and the fix has been prepared for the next kernel package release. The cause was a wrong change of the Intel graphics controller's driver, which was introduced to the wheezy's kernel in the last autumn. The crashes of this cause seems to be reported on the BTS only on the PC's with Intel 82865G graphics driver. I hope owner of the PC's like mine be happy until the wheezy is released.