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

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Sat Dec 5 19:16:18 EST 2009


Emmanuel Benisty wrote:
> 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.

Can I have a link please?


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