Re: 3.5 regression on i915

[Dave Airlie]

On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 3:27 AM, Willy Tarreau <w@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 01:58:45AM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 09:48:57AM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
>> > Any reason you don't have KMS, you'll keep hitting these non-kms bugs
>> > since it has no users anymore really.
>> >
>> > Granted they'll get fixed, but I suspect its a losing battle over time.
>>
>> Well, back in old times every time I tried to enable it, I only ran into
>> problems so I got used to disable it, which made sense since it didn't
>> bring me any benefit.
>
> OK I found why in the end. When I enable KMS, my X server fails to start
> and segfaults in intel_drv.so. So I think that the comment in Kconfig
> below is quite appropriate :

Okay are you running a really old userspace? just wondering what could
cause this.

Dave.
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