From: David John <davidjon@xenontk.org>
To: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: We La <w.landgraf@yahoo.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.30-rc3 : Regression: i915 , video
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:08:29 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49F16C75.9040702@xenontk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0904231537590.15830@localhost.localdomain>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-24 7:39 UTC|newest]
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2009-04-23 19:19 2.6.30-rc3 : Regression: i915 , video We La
2009-04-23 19:48 ` Len Brown
2009-04-24 7:38 ` David John [this message]
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2009-04-25 2:31 We La
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