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From: Jonathan McDowell <noodles@earth.li>
To: dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: X hangs with blank screen on 2.6.32-rc4 / Intel 915GM
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 09:10:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091017161056.GA7149@earth.li> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091016005319.GC5658@earth.li>

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 05:53:19PM -0700, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
> Trying 2.6.32-rc4 on my Toshiba R200 laptop running Debian Squeeze
> leads to a blank screen with a flashing cursor in the top left when X
> starts.  If startup in such a way that X isn't automatically started
> the console is fine, but starting X manually still leads to the hang.
> The machine seems unresponsive at this point - I can't switch to a
> normal console and the laptop fan comes on in a manner that suggests
> the CPU is chugging away.
> 
> 2.6.31.4 works fine.

And 2.6.32-rc5 works again, so this is no longer an issue as far as
I'm concerned.

J.

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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-16  0:53 X hangs with blank screen on 2.6.32-rc4 / Intel 915GM Jonathan McDowell
2009-10-17 16:10 ` Jonathan McDowell [this message]

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