Re: suspend issue

[Justin Mattock]

I wouldn't mind trying out git. Hopefully I know what I'm doing.
regards;
                Justin P. Mattock

On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 8:41 AM, R. J. Wysocki <Rafal.Wysocki@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Monday, 7 of April 2008, Justin Mattock wrote:
>  > Hello; I don't know how to do a git bisect(too much of a noob)
>  > regards;
>
>  First, please don't top post.  Looking at this message you can see why it
>  really doesn't make sense. :-)
>
>  Now, in short, to run a git bisection:
>
>  (1) clone the Linus' tree (see http://linux.yyz.us/git-howto.html#download_first_time)
>  (2) from within the kernel source code directory downloaded in (1) run
>         $ git bisect start
>         $ git bisect bad
>     (this will mark the last revision as a failing one)
>  (3) If you have already verified that 2.6.24 works correctly, run
>         $ git bisect good v2.6.24
>     (this will mark the 2.6.24 kernel as a good one)
>  (4) as a result of this, git will select a kernel revision between 2.6.24 and
>     the most recent one for testing.  Compile it, install it and check if it
>     works.  If it does, run
>         $ git bisect good
>     Otherwise, run
>         $ git bisect bad
>  (5) repeat (4) until there's no more revisions to test.
>
>  If you encounter any problems, please ask what to do next.
>
>  Thanks,
>  Rafael
>
>
>  > On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 11:28 PM, Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote:
>  > > On Sun 2008-04-06 13:55:04, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
>  > >  > On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 04:03 +0000, Justin Mattock wrote:
>  > >  > > Hello; I seem to have discovered something with echo mem > /sys/power/state.
>  > >  > > I recompile the kernel and had forgotten to compile fglrx, when
>  > >  > > performing a suspend without fglrx I was confronted with the dreaded
>  > >  > > blank screen and a reboot. then as a test I compiled fglrx and loaded,
>  > >  > > and to my amazement suspend reacted properly again.
>  > >  >
>  > >  > Yeah, but I it does not even work without X - console only!
>  > >  >
>  > >  > s2ram -f -p used to work since at least 2.6.20 ... and is now not
>  > >  > anymore in 2.6.25-*
>  > >
>  > >  Can you do git bisect?
>  > >                                                                         Pavel
>  > >  --
>  > >  (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek
>  > >  (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
>  > >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>
>
>
>  --
>  Rafael J. Wysocki, Ph.D.
>  Institute of Theoretical Physics
>  Faculty of Physics of Warsaw University
>  ul. Hoza 69, 00-681 Warsaw
>  [tel: +48 22 55 32 263]
>  [mob: +48 60 50 53 693]
>  ----------------------------
>  One should not increase, beyond what is necessary,
>  the number of entities required to explain anything.
>                         -- William of Ockham
>



-- 
Justin P. Mattock
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/