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

[Emmanuel Benisty]

On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 7:16 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> 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?
>

sure, it's there: http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/12/5/4 and there
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/intel-gfx/2009-December/005077.html