linux-kernel - Re: [GIT BISECT] 2c1756b12edc19fdd75c833699cb752e1bbb641e - Display corruption after blank screen state

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Date:	Fri, 21 Oct 2011 10:01:57 +0700
From:	Emmanuel Benisty <benisty.e@...il.com>
To:	Keith Packard <keithp@...thp.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT BISECT] 2c1756b12edc19fdd75c833699cb752e1bbb641e - Display
 corruption after blank screen state

On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Keith Packard <keithp@...thp.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 23:33:13 +0700, Emmanuel Benisty <benisty.e@...il.com> wrote:
>
> (I'm sorry I missed this mail; I was preoccupied with family issues
> that week).

And I missed your reply too, very sorry about this.

>> The following commit causes display corruption once the machine goes
>> out from default X server power saving blank screen state. This is
>> with an i3 330m.
>
> Can you provide more information about which display is corrupted and
> what the corruption looks like?
>
>> commit 2c1756b12edc19fdd75c833699cb752e1bbb641e
>> Merge: cf96e46 d74362c
>> Author: Keith Packard <keithp@...thp.com>
>> Date:   Thu Jul 28 16:30:41 2011 -0700
>>
>>     Merge branch 'drm-intel-fixes' into drm-intel-next
>>
>
> Can you provide the output of intel_reg_dumper from both working and
> non-working kernels? Reverting this merge would be a fairly substantial
> challenge at this point in the release cycle, so I'd like to see if we
> can't narrow things down a bit and find the actual code change at fault.

This is now fixed in Linus' tree. Just FTR, adding
i915.i915_enable_fbc=0 solved the issue (prior to mainline fix).
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