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Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 10:36:16 +0200 From: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@...asas.com> To: Chris Vine <chris@...ne.freeserve.co.uk> CC: Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: kernel 2.6.37-rc2 breaks i915 graphics On 11/21/2010 08:34 PM, Chris Vine wrote: > On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 10:30:43 +0000 > Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk> wrote: > >> On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 10:23:44 +0000, Chris Vine >> <chris@...ne.freeserve.co.uk> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> With kernel 2.6.37-rc2, i915 graphics usually fails on boot-up after >>> modesetting with my Lenovo S12 netbook which uses the Intel 945GME >>> Express Integrated Graphics Controller. It displays up to the >>> point at which modesetting takes place and then usually goes blank. >>> >>> There may be some kind of race at work here: first, sometimes >>> (maybe 1 times in 4) graphics comes up correctly on a first cold >>> boot, but I have never managed to get it to come up on a warm >>> reboot. Secondly, graphics can be restored when I know (but cannot >>> see) that boot-up has concluded, simply by suspending the laptop >>> and then resuming. Resuming the laptop after a suspend always >>> brings up the graphics correctly. >> >> Add drm.debug=0xe to your boot commandline and compare if there is any >> difference between a successful cold boot, a broken cold boot and a >> warm boot. Similarly, comparing the output of intel_reg_dumper after >> each should yield a few clues as to what stage in the boot process we >> fail. -Chris > > First an additional datum point: 2.6.37-rc1 works normally, so the bug > is something introduced between 2.6.37-rc1 and 2.6.37-rc2 (to that > extent it may be related to this bug which reports a similar phenomenon: > http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/21/23 ). > > Attached is the dmesg output from a successful cold boot with > 2.6.37-rc2, an unsuccessful cold boot and an unsuccessful warm boot, > each with drm.debug=0xe. > > I can't provide the output of intel_reg_dumper: I can't compile the > latest intel-gpu-tools from git (missing declaration/definition of > I915_EXE_BLT). Probably something in a relevant library is too old. > > Chris Do you know / can do a "git bisect" good 2.6.37-rc1 bad 2.6.37-rc2 should not be that long. This will pinpoint the bug to a specific patch. Thanks Boaz -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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