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SubjectRe: [regression?] Sometime (often) X come out blank (black screen) on cold boot - Intel chipset
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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.

Thanks,
Jesse
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