From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Melchior FRANZ <melchior.franz@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: i915 completely unusable in 2.6.38.x
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 14:03:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110425210323.GA23418@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201104252210.46523@rk-nord.at>
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 10:10:46PM +0200, Melchior FRANZ wrote:
> * Boris B. Zhmurov -- Monday 25 April 2011:
> > After upgrading RHEL6 to 2.6.28.x kernel, I have spontaneous "GPU hung"
> > 5-6 times per day.
> > xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.11.0-7.el6.i686 driver for Xorg.
>
> JFTR, and although it seems to be a totally different problem with i915
> (or rather gm45), the whole 2.6.38.* series is also of limited use on my
> notebook, as described in this error message:
>
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31522
>
> I'm still using 2.6.38-rc8 (with SuSE 11.4/tumbleweed) on this machine
> (Acer TravelMate 5735Z-452G32Mnss), because that's the last version that
> supported KMS on my chipset. This older version works ok, so there's no
> reason to complain, but I'm still a bit suprised about that regression.
I don't understand, .38 should work as it has the above fix in it,
right?
Otherwise, what should be done for the .38-stable tree?
confused,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-25 21:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-25 9:14 i915 completely unusable in 2.6.38.x Boris B. Zhmurov
2011-04-25 9:15 ` Boris B. Zhmurov
2011-04-25 20:10 ` Melchior FRANZ
2011-04-25 21:03 ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-04-26 7:59 ` Melchior FRANZ
2011-04-26 10:31 ` Boris B. Zhmurov
2011-04-26 18:04 ` Melchior FRANZ
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