Messages in this thread | | | From | Melchior FRANZ <> | Subject | Re: i915 completely unusable in 2.6.38.x | Date | Tue, 26 Apr 2011 09:59:52 +0200 |
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I didn't really want to hijack this thread -- just confirm that the i915 driver is/was broken through the whole 2.6.38 series, up to 2.6.38.4.
* Greg KH -- Monday 25 April 2011: > On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 10:10:46PM +0200, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > > I'm still using 2.6.38-rc8 (with SuSE 11.4/tumbleweed) on this machine > > (Acer TravelMate 5735Z-452G32Mnss), because that's the last version that > > supported KMS on my chipset.
> I don't understand, .38 should work as it has the above fix in it, > right?
[https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31522] Argh, sorry -- I hadn't noticed that someone closed this bug report. No, this isn't fixed. Exact same symptoms: The notebook's screen goes black early in the boot process with KMS. Closing and reopening the lid doesn't help, contrary to what some people reported. Turning off KMS kind-of helps: The virtual console is right after that, but Xorg apparently gets contradicting info about the screen size, so that parts of the desktop end up outside the screen area.
> Otherwise, what should be done for the .38-stable tree?
I had assumed that the commit that broke it was known, as there hasn't much been committed between 2.6.38-rc8 and 26.6.38, but I'll bisect and investigate.
m.
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