Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.5.64-mm6 | From | Alexander Hoogerhuis <> | Date | 15 Mar 2003 09:38:23 +0100 |
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Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com> writes:
> Alexander Hoogerhuis <alexh@ihatent.com> wrote: > > > > I've used tried the -mm-kernels since they've actually made > > 2.5-kernels usable on my laptop lately (Compaq Evo800c), but > > 2.5.64-mm2 and onwards doesnt work with X anymore. I run 4.3.0-r1 from > > the Gentoo unstable "branch". > > > > with -mm1 I X coming up just nicely, and now the screen just goes > > black after trying to start X, and it seems related to DRM. > > I have a radeon card here. Just tried it. The X server starts up OK but as > soon as I run tuxracer, some ioctl down in the radeon driver keeps on timing > out waiting for the FIFO, spins for ten milliseconds in-kernel and the X > server immediately calls the ioctl again. The whole thing is bust. I went > all the way back to 2.5.39, where it is still bust. 2.4.21-pre5 is OK > though. > > So it looks like my breakage is different from yours. > > Could you please try just 2.5.64 plus > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.5/2.5.64/2.5.64-mm6/broken-out/linus.patch > > That will tell us if it is a -mm bug or a -linus bug. >
Vanilla 2.5.64 is b0rken, too. Tried it, and went back and tries -mm6 with and without ACPI as well, no difference. So instead of trudging through that liste of change sets, I'll back out one and one patch from -mm1 back to plain .64 to see where the thing goes belly up. Seems reasonable?
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