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* Re: 2.6.30-rc3 : Regression: i915 , video
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@ 2009-04-23 19:48 ` Len Brown
  2009-04-24  7:38   ` David John
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Len Brown @ 2009-04-23 19:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: We La; +Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List, linux-acpi


> 
> 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


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* Re: 2.6.30-rc3 : Regression: i915 , video
  2009-04-23 19:48 ` 2.6.30-rc3 : Regression: i915 , video Len Brown
@ 2009-04-24  7:38   ` David John
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: David John @ 2009-04-24  7:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Len Brown; +Cc: We La, Linux Kernel Mailing List, linux-acpi

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
> 
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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

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