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From: Chris Snook <csnook@redhat.com>
To: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Weird Xorg radeon mirroring with linux-next-20080515
Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 13:35:08 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <482C744C.3050308@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <g0hflu$b4q$1@ger.gmane.org>

Sitsofe Wheeler wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When using the radeon xorg driver with linux-next-20080515 there is a
> strange mirroring/stretching effect in the bottom eighth of the screen. The
> problem seems to have started sometime between linux-next-20080513 and 
> linux-next-20080515.
> 
> (Do you always have to have done bisection before reporting regressions?)
> 

NO!

But in this case, given that the reproducer is simple and deterministic, but 
you're not sure which subsystem is the cause, bisection is well-suited to the 
task.  You might be able to shave a few steps off by targeting dri-related 
commits, but that's just a guess.

-- Chris

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-15 17:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-15 14:00 Weird Xorg radeon mirroring with linux-next-20080515 Sitsofe Wheeler
2008-05-15 17:35 ` Chris Snook [this message]
2008-05-15 21:36   ` Weird Xorg radeon mirroring with linux-next-20080515 [paritial bisect] Sitsofe Wheeler
2008-05-15 23:18     ` Dave Airlie
2008-05-16  7:39       ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2008-05-16 15:53       ` Weird Xorg stretching (setfont) Sitsofe Wheeler

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