Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753513Ab0AKSGu (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:06:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753224Ab0AKSGu (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:06:50 -0500 Received: from www17.your-server.de ([213.133.104.17]:58904 "EHLO www17.your-server.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753154Ab0AKSGt (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:06:49 -0500 Subject: Re: [Bug #14670] i915: playing video via XVideo extension makes the screen flicker From: Thomas Meyer To: Jesse Barnes Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Kernel Testers List , Eric Anholt In-Reply-To: <20100111085527.104f5c3e@jbarnes-piketon> References: <1263228784.12830.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20100111085527.104f5c3e@jbarnes-piketon> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:05:58 +0100 Message-ID: <1263233158.2161.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.2 (2.28.2-1.fc12) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authenticated-Sender: thomas@m3y3r.de Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2105 Lines: 56 Am Montag, den 11.01.2010, 08:55 -0800 schrieb Jesse Barnes: > On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:53:04 +0100 > Thomas Meyer wrote: > > > Am Sonntag, den 10.01.2010, 23:56 +0100 schrieb Rafael J. Wysocki: > > > This message has been generated automatically as a part of a report > > > of regressions introduced between 2.6.31 and 2.6.32. > > > > > > The following bug entry is on the current list of known regressions > > > introduced between 2.6.31 and 2.6.32. Please verify if it still > > > should be listed and let me know (either way). > > > > > > > Yes, still should be listed. > > > > Problem still exists in 2.6.32.3 and 2.6.33-rc3-00097-g2c1f189, that > > contains > > this commit: > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=cda9d05c499093c67b4a376a15009923acc2127a > > > > The above commit removes the render reclock support, that ought to > > fix a common kind of problem encountered on i915 hardware, but not on > > my machine. > > > > Still need to boot with "nomodeset" to have a workable system. > > Does this patch prevent the flicker? No, sorry. Reverting b42d4c5c6a872815d711e5d51a600f5122c38eee (i.e. the commit I bisect my problem to) on top of 3c8ad49b015eb115fbd6982f56d530f53cf57f84 (i.e. 2.6.33-rc3-00147-g3c8ad49) make the problem go away. My changes are: diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lvds.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lvds.c index f4b4aa2..15c6e6b 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lvds.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lvds.c @@ -629,6 +629,8 @@ static enum drm_connector_status intel_lvds_detect(struct drm_connector *connect { enum drm_connector_status status = connector_status_connected; + return status; + if (!acpi_lid_open() && !dmi_check_system(bad_lid_status)) status = connector_status_disconnected; -- 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/