Re: Skylake graphics regression: projector failure with 4.8-rc3

From: James Bottomley
Date: Fri Aug 26 2016 - 09:12:38 EST


On Fri, 2016-08-26 at 09:10 -0400, James Bottomley wrote:
> We seem to have an xrandr regression with skylake now. What's
> happening is that I can get output on to a projector, but the system
> is losing video when I change the xrandr sessions (like going from a
> --above b to a --same-as b). The main screen goes blank, which is
> basically a reboot situation. Unfortunately, I can't seem to get the
> logs out of systemd to see if there was a dump to dmesg (the system
> was definitely responding).
>
> I fell back to 4.6.2 which worked perfectly, so this is definitely
> some sort of regression. I'll be able to debug more fully when I get
> back home from the Linux Security Summit.

Sorry, ignore the logs: they're from a previous bug; as I said I'll try
to gather logs when I get back to a more controlled environment over
the weekend.

James