Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754806AbZDXHjY (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Apr 2009 03:39:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751358AbZDXHjQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Apr 2009 03:39:16 -0400 Received: from smtpauth.net4india.com ([202.71.129.139]:34345 "EHLO smtpauth.net4india.com" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751212AbZDXHjP (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Apr 2009 03:39:15 -0400 Message-ID: <49F16C75.9040702@xenontk.org> Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:08:29 +0530 From: David John Reply-To: davidjon@xenontk.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20090324 Fedora/3.0-2.1.beta2.fc11 Thunderbird/3.0b2 ThunderBrowse/3.2.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Len Brown CC: We La , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.30-rc3 : Regression: i915 , video References: <72010.86725.qm@web112215.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1469 Lines: 44 On 04/24/2009 01:18 AM, Len Brown wrote: >> Problems on MSI U100 laptop: >> >> root@werner:~# modprobe i915 >> WARNING: Error inserting video (/lib/modules/2.6.30-rc3/kernel/drivers/acpi/video.ko): No such device >> FATAL: Error inserting i915 (/lib/modules/2.6.30-rc3/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) >> root@werner:~# >> >> Apr 23 16:16:57 localhost kernel: i915: Unknown symbol acpi_video_register >> >> >> On older kernels this drivers worked >> >> Werner Landgraf >> Linux SYS > > you've got modular i915 and no acpi video driver? > Does this patch help? > > http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/18420/ > > thanks, > -Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > Hi, Can you forward this patch to Linus? This regression breaks quite a few configs where ACPI Video is compiled as a module and i915 is built in. This should have been in stable, but I guess it's too late now. Regards, David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/