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

[Emmanuel Benisty]

On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 2:28 AM, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 :)

As I had/still have no idea, I've started a thread on LKML earlier
today, which has been CC'd to intel-gfx since.

> 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

It happens in X only and I didn't notice anything suspicious in
Xorg.0.log or dmesg...