Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753797Ab0LaRCG (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Dec 2010 12:02:06 -0500 Received: from astoria.ccjclearline.com ([64.235.106.9]:46905 "EHLO astoria.ccjclearline.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753023Ab0LaRCE (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Dec 2010 12:02:04 -0500 Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 12:01:54 -0500 (EST) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost6.localdomain6 To: Maxim Levitsky cc: Anca Emanuel , Ubuntu kernel team mailing list , LKML , "intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org" Subject: Re: is there a fix for ubuntu with intel GPU booting to blank screen? In-Reply-To: <1293814089.6993.4.camel@maxim-laptop> Message-ID: References: <1293814089.6993.4.camel@maxim-laptop> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - astoria.ccjclearline.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - crashcourse.ca X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2019 Lines: 48 On Fri, 31 Dec 2010, Maxim Levitsky wrote: ... snip related to i915 blank screen issues ... > Since you know how to compile kernel, and even have a close working > version, you really should just bisect the bug. > > Bisection is a built-in in the git binary search that allows you to > find the first commit that introduced the bug. > > For example, quick google gives, > http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git-core/docs/v1.0.13/howto/isolate-bugs-with-bisect.txt oh, i know how to do bisection but, to be frank, i just don't have the time. i'm under a brutal deadline for some billable work and, even if i had the time, i suspect that when i eventually tracked down the commit, i probably wouldn't really appreciate what i was looking at, anyway. i've done some searching on the issue and, among other pages, i've come up with this one: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/683775 so i downloaded the kernel mentioned there and tested that, but no luck. mostly, i understand that there top men -- *top* *men* -- working on this :-) who know far more about the graphics subsystem than i do so i'm just going to stay out of their way, but i'm willing to test any proposed solutions if they come up. my biggest worry is that, given that we're already at -rc8, will this issue be fixed before the next official release? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== -- 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/