Re: [git pull] drm for rc1

From: Anca Emanuel
Date: Tue Jan 11 2011 - 11:11:47 EST


On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Arg.  It's been ok on my ILK systems, but Chris has found some issues with out watermarking code iirc; apparently we're underflowing the display FIFO, causing all sorts of trouble.  If it works before the pull of Dave's tree, can you bisect?
>
> There's no way to bisect this thing - it started happening after 2
> hours (first message at 8287.139375 seconds from boot, to be exact).
> So far only once, but that's possibly because I've been asleep for the
> last eight hours ;)
>
> But yes, it worked before pulling Dave's tree, IOW, I haven't seen
> this message on this machine before.
>
> And as mentioned, this is a regular machine, not one of my
> preproduction things that tend to have odd silicon or BIOSes.
> Bog-standard Core i5 on an Asus P7H57D-V EVO motherboard. The fanciest
> part of that machine is the silent case ;)
>
> Chris wrote:
>> Linus, is anything else kicked off upon powersaving? A screen saver or is
>> it just the blanking that triggers the mess?
>
> So I don't _know_ that it was the screen saver that triggered, but I
> do know that it started happening while I was out to pick up a kid
> from gymnastics. So the screen saver was pretty much the only thing
> going on apart from an idle desktop with a few terminals and chrome.
>
> And it's not even a 3D screen saver or anything graphically fancy,
> it's just the "show random photos" one (it eventually does blank too,
> but I think I've set the blanking interval to an hour or something).
> But compiz was on.
>
>                         Linus
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Linus, 2.6.37-git4 works for me, can you unpull the DRM, and wait
until is more stable ?
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