Re: [3.4 regression] [bisected] DisplayPort fails to come on

Wouter M. Koolen
2012-06-15T08:23:14Z

On 06/14/2012 10:52 PM, Brown, Len wrote:
> Please test the latest patch here:
>
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43168
(Now without the HTML)

Hi Len,

First let me apologise for the confusion. I grouped two error messages
that apparently are not related:
kernel: video: probe of LNXVIDEO:00 failed with error -5
kernel: [drm:intel_dp_complete_link_train] *ERROR* failed to train DP,
aborting

We resolved my problem (a blank second monitor attached to the
displayport) and got rid of the second error message by reverting
092945e11c5b84f66dd08f0b87fb729715d377bc.

The first message remains, and I interpret your suggestion as trying to
get rid of that too. The difficulty for me is that I do not see any
symptoms resulting from this error message. In particular the backlight
controls (Fn-F4/5) work fine. I do not know what

/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A08:00/device:2c/LNXVIDEO:00/input/input4

means, how I activate it, and what goes awry when its probing fails.

Then again, I think there must be something to your pointer, since I see
indeed in dmesg
[Firmware Bug]: ACPI(PEGP) defines _DOD but not _DOS

At any rate, without that patch this error message is displayed:

kernel: video: probe of LNXVIDEO:00 failed with error -5

With the patch I see instead
input: Video Bus as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A08:00/device:2c/LNXVIDEO:00/input/input4

That does look more friendly, but I am at a loss to tell you what really got improved. Please help.

Wouter