2010-01-10 20:16:06

by Soeren Sonnenburg

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Subject: 2.6.32-rc3-git display goes off with i915.powersave=1

Dear all,

on my Samsung NC10 the latest kernel i915 driver with powersaving
enabled causes the dissplay to go randomly black (or white) after a
random time (few minutes usually).

The only way to recover from this is a suspend to ram cycle....

I've upgraded to the latest xorg-intel driver to see if it works with
that one - but no it does not. However, setting powersave=0 makes things
work again..

And it looks like I am not alone:

http://ikibiki.org//blog/2010/01/08/Xorg_tricks_for_Intel_users/

Soeren
--
For the one fact about the future of which we can be certain is that it
will be utterly fantastic. -- Arthur C. Clarke, 1962


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