linux-kernel - Re: REGRESSION: 2.6.26-rc2-git4: X server failed start on X61s laptop

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Date:	Sat, 17 May 2008 09:49:07 +0000 (UTC)
From:	Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@...oo.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject:  Re: REGRESSION: 2.6.26-rc2-git4: X server failed start on X61s
 laptop

On Sat, 17 May 2008 03:32:05 -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:

> The X server failed to come up using the Intel driver, and forced a
> fallback to the 800x600 VESA server.  This was on my Lenovo X61s laptop
>
> The git bisect identified this commit as the guilty one:
> 
> 1c12c4cf9411eb130b245fa8d0fbbaf989477c7b is first bad commit commit
> 1c12c4cf9411eb130b245fa8d0fbbaf989477c7b Author: Venki Pallipadi
> <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com> Date:   Wed May 14 16:05:51 2008 -0700
> 
>     mprotect: prevent alteration of the PAT bits

This sounds related to
http://groups.google.com/group/linux.kernel/browse_frm/thread/1dba81049ce4ad16/546aff3e91055ab7#546aff3e91055ab7 ...

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