Messages in this thread | | | From | Jesse Barnes <> | Subject | Re: [Regression: 2.6.25-rc5: Blank Screen: Intel 945] | Date | Wed, 9 Apr 2008 08:24:35 -0700 |
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On Tuesday, April 08, 2008 9:56 pm Justin Madru wrote: > Jesse Barnes wrote: > > Yeah, seems pretty weird. Given that you see it w/o the fb stuff loaded > > as well and we still have a few open bugs against the intel X driver > > regarding VT switch & mode programming, I don't think this is a real > > kernel regression. It's more likely that some timing or memory layout > > changed subtly and is causing to to hit one of our existing bugs more > > frequently that you did before. Can you file a bug against the intel X > > driver at > > bugs.freedesktop.org so we can track it there? Unless we can find a way > > to reproduce it reliably it'll probably take a long time to fix, but we > > don't want to lose it either... > > Well, I'll file a bug on bugs.freedesktop.org, but if you don't think > it's a kernel regression then I'll wait until the final release of > 2.6.25 comes out (unless you _really_ need me to file it sooner).
Well, given what we've tested so far, it really doesn't seem like a framebuffer layer regression nor a DRM regression... I suppose you could try bisecting, but given that the problem doesn't happen everytime that might take awhile...
> This is what I have in my config: > > CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU=y > > CONFIG_IO_DELAY_NONE=y > > By the way is the intel driver that you work on the same that's enabled by: > > CONFIG_AGP_INTEL=m > > CONFIG_DRM_I915=m > > Or is there another X.org intel driver? And if so how are they > (agp/drm/X.org) related?
You could try using the X vesa driver instead of the intel driver...
Jesse
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