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

[Xavier]

On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Emmanuel Benisty <benisty.e at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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)
>

Does upstream know about this ? If you have no idea, make sure they know :)

If the issue happens before starting X, just check your kernel log /
dmesg. If it happens after X, check both dmesg and Xorg.0.log