Re: i915 completely unusable in 2.6.38.x

From: Melchior FRANZ
Date: Mon Apr 25 2011 - 16:17:36 EST


* Boris B. Zhmurov -- Monday 25 April 2011:
> After upgrading RHEL6 to 2.6.28.x kernel, I have spontaneous "GPU hung"
> 5-6 times per day.
> xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.11.0-7.el6.i686 driver for Xorg.

JFTR, and although it seems to be a totally different problem with i915
(or rather gm45), the whole 2.6.38.* series is also of limited use on my
notebook, as described in this error message:

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31522

I'm still using 2.6.38-rc8 (with SuSE 11.4/tumbleweed) on this machine
(Acer TravelMate 5735Z-452G32Mnss), because that's the last version that
supported KMS on my chipset. This older version works ok, so there's no
reason to complain, but I'm still a bit suprised about that regression.

m.
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