Re: [Bisected] Output to external monitor is broken (Re: Linux2.6.31-rc9)

From: Carlos R. Mafra
Date: Mon Sep 07 2009 - 15:14:02 EST


On Mon 7.Sep'09 at 11:37:39 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Carlos - can you also do the full dmesg _with_ the corruption? I realize
> that your screen is unreadable, but if you can just log in blindly, and
> do a "dmesg > saved-dmesg-file" and then do a clean reboot? No need for
> a serial console or anything fancy - I assume the machine is still
> working, just with bad output.
>
> It might also be a good idea to boot with "drm.debug=15" to enable much
> more debugging output.
> - Linus ]

I am no longer at the institute with the monitor to test, but I've already
uploaded similar debug info to the bugzilla upon ykzhao's request this
morning (but I think you were not Cc:-ed on that request, though).

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14139

PS: The external monitor is unreadable, but the laptop's screen is still good.
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