[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] kernel 2.6.32-1

[Emmanuel Benisty]

On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Thomas Bächler wrote:
>>
>> Allan McRae schrieb:
>>>
>>> That works for me.  I initially thought it was strange that it came on
>>> but now I see why.  extreme-tuxracer is giving me (>50%) more FPS with this
>>> update.
>>
>> Intel DRM has been improved, I noticed that too - probably due to
>> framebuffer compression.
>>
>> KMS is enabled by default because the next intel driver version will
>> require it to work.
>
> With KMS on, my screen flickers every 20sec or so.  Tried with no xorg.conf
> and the same thing.  I even got some sort of yellow/orange screen of death.
>  I did not use KMS with 2.6.31 so this may not be kernel related.  I'll look
> into it later but disabling kms from the grub prompt works fine...

It's definitely a kernel regression, I'm having the exact same issue
with .32 only (using KMS since few kernel releases)