From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753826AbYEQJte (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 May 2008 05:49:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751574AbYEQJtZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 May 2008 05:49:25 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:59098 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751457AbYEQJtY (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 May 2008 05:49:24 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Sitsofe Wheeler Subject: Re: REGRESSION: 2.6.26-rc2-git4: X server failed start on X61s laptop Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 09:49:07 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cpc1-cwma5-0-0-cust137.swan.cable.ntl.com User-Agent: Pan/0.129 (Benson & Hedges Moscow Gold) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 17 May 2008 03:32:05 -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > The X server failed to come up using the Intel driver, and forced a > fallback to the 800x600 VESA server. This was on my Lenovo X61s laptop > > The git bisect identified this commit as the guilty one: > > 1c12c4cf9411eb130b245fa8d0fbbaf989477c7b is first bad commit commit > 1c12c4cf9411eb130b245fa8d0fbbaf989477c7b Author: Venki Pallipadi > Date: Wed May 14 16:05:51 2008 -0700 > > mprotect: prevent alteration of the PAT bits This sounds related to http://groups.google.com/group/linux.kernel/browse_frm/thread/1dba81049ce4ad16/546aff3e91055ab7#546aff3e91055ab7 ... -- Sitsofe | http://sucs.org/~sits/