Re: [3.7-rc5/rc6 regression] "drm/nvc0/disp: fix regression in vblanksemaphore release" broke nouveau driver and mplayer

From: Joseph Salisbury
Date: Wed Nov 21 2012 - 12:03:02 EST


On 11/17/2012 05:03 PM, Marcin Slusarz wrote:
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 08:35:18PM +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
mplayer worked fine on my Dell Latitude E6510 (nVidia GT218 [NVS 3100M] graphics)
up to and including kernel 3.7-rc4. However, with 3.7-rc5 or -rc6, any attempt to
run mplayer just blanks the screen, shows some stray white pixels in the upper left
corner, kills the X server, and spews the following errors from the kernel:
Fix was already posted and should be merged soon.

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/nouveau/linux-2.6/commit/?id=7a259e65569bd7593ad541c84982027969ec9c45
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Do you happen to know if this fix will make it into 3.7, or do you think it won't happen until 3.8?

Thanks,

Joe
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