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From: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
To: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>,
	dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] i915 KMS dual head broken on DELL latitude E6420 in 3.1-rc*
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:43:36 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yunobym743b.fsf@aiko.keithp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110914232717.GA5410@type.famille.thibault.fr>

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On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 01:27:17 +0200, Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> wrote:
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> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to upgrade from 3.0 to 3.1-rcsomething on a DELL latitude
> E6420, but dual head is broken. Here is the scenario:
> 
> - Turn computer on with VGA1 connected. Both LVDS1 and VGA1 show the
>   text console fine.
> - Start X. VGA1 shows X fine, but LVDS1 (1600x900 resolution) shows an
>   odd screen: completely black on the left part (about 1060x900), sort
>   of gray on the right part (about 540x900). Playing with xrandr doesn't
>   help, I can at best make it completely black with --off, and not get
>   it back again with --auto or anything else.

Can you try disabling frame buffer compression?

i915.i915_enable-fbc=0

I'm about to send a patch to disable this by default; I've gotten two
people saying that this helps them already.

-- 
keith.packard@intel.com

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-15  5:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-14 23:27 [REGRESSION] i915 KMS dual head broken on DELL latitude E6420 in 3.1-rc* Samuel Thibault
2011-09-15  5:43 ` Keith Packard [this message]
2011-09-15  7:41   ` Samuel Thibault
2011-09-15  8:12     ` Samuel Thibault
2011-09-15 14:22       ` Keith Packard
2011-09-16 16:30         ` Samuel Thibault
2011-09-16 18:10           ` Samuel Thibault
2012-01-05  2:16           ` Samuel Thibault
2012-01-05  9:53             ` Samuel Thibault
2013-01-22  9:47               ` [REGRESSION FIXED] " Samuel Thibault
2013-01-22 13:04                 ` Daniel Vetter

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