Re: [Regression: 2.6.25-rc5: Blank Screen: Intel 945]

[Justin Madru <jdm64@gawab.com>]

Jesse Barnes wrote:
> Yeah, seems pretty weird.  Given that you see it w/o the fb stuff loaded as 
> well and we still have a few open bugs against the intel X driver regarding 
> VT switch & mode programming, I don't think this is a real kernel regression.  
> It's more likely that some timing or memory layout changed subtly and is 
> causing to to hit one of our existing bugs more frequently that you did 
> before.  Can you file a bug against the intel X driver at 
> bugs.freedesktop.org so we can track it there?  Unless we can find a way to 
> reproduce it reliably it'll probably take a long time to fix, but we don't 
> want to lose it either...

Well, I'll file a bug on bugs.freedesktop.org, but if you don't think 
it's a kernel regression then I'll wait until the final release of 
2.6.25 comes out (unless you _really_ need me to file it sooner).

I still think it's somehow related to something that changed in the 
kernel from v24 to v25 because I've never had it happen with a kernel 
version less that 2.6.25. You say it's a timing issue; I've searched and 
found two things that have changed in v25: Preemptive RCU and I/O Port 
Delay.

I've enabled both preemptive RCU and no I/O port delay. I've recompiled 
with both disabled and found that the blank screen _still_ happens. So, 
I'm figuring that _maybe_ by adding these options the kernel developers 
needed to change something that exposes something related to the intel 
X.org driver that's no longer necessarily true
(or something like that - do you get what I'm trying to say).

This is what I have in my config:
> CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU=y
> CONFIG_IO_DELAY_NONE=y

By the way is the intel driver that you work on the same that's enabled by:
> CONFIG_AGP_INTEL=m
> CONFIG_DRM_I915=m

Or is there another X.org intel driver? And if so how are they 
(agp/drm/X.org) related?

Justin