Re: 2.6.36-rc5 i915 regression

From: Chris Wilson
Date: Fri Oct 01 2010 - 08:28:33 EST


On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 13:00:05 +0200, Johannes Hirte <johannes.hirte@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> With 2.6.36-rc5 and later my netbook is unusable. After login on X (KDE) the
> screen gets totally garbled, under X and console too. The log shows me this
> messages:

My humble apologies, fixed in 2.6.36-rc6:

commit 9b74f7348f214b1f99819f0d0da4a1cbabb1e740
Author: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Sep 22 19:10:44 2010 +0100

drm/i915: Fix 945GM regression in e259befd

A minor typo caused a single fence register to be incorrectly
programmed, resulting in occassional tiling corruption.

Reported-and-tested-by: Hans de Bruin <bruinjm@xxxxxxxxx>
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18962
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx

It appears to have bitten worse than just the occasional gfx corruption.
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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