Messages in this thread | | | From | Jesse Barnes <> | Subject | Re: [regression?] Sometime (often) X come out blank (black screen) on cold boot - Intel chipset | Date | Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:58:00 -0700 |
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On Tuesday, June 10, 2008 9:33 pm Justin Madru wrote: > Jesse, > It seems the problem might be related to usplash. In each reported > case Ubuntu and usplash were used, and disabling usplash (at least for > me) seems to fix the problem. Could there be some timing feature that > usplash uses that isn't guaranteed/changed with some optimizations of > CFS (or HR-timers) that went into 2.6.25? I've cc'ed Saïvann Carignan, > who seems to be the most active contributer to usplash.
Yeah, usplash really seems to affect things to make the bug more visible, but I still suspect a timing bug in xf86-video-intel... Unfortunately those are hard to find & debug, but we're working on some related stuff, so hopefully we'll find & fix it soon.
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