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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

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-24  7:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-04-25  2:31 We La

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