Re: Linux 3.8.6

[Lucas <canolucas@gmail.com>]

On 05/04/13 14:40, Greg KH wrote:
> I'm announcing the release of the 3.8.6 kernel.
>
> All users of the 3.8 kernel series must upgrade.
>
> The updated 3.8.y git tree can be found at:
> 	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-3.8.y
> and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser:
> 	http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git;a=summary
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>

Hi Greg, I have an issue with a Lenovo T60's Notebook, which has an 
Intel VGA card.

[lucas@tux ~]$ lspci | grep "VGA"
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 
943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)

The screen turns black whenever X is executed, due to the following bug:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57365

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/33062

Those sites havethe error output that is generated from X attempts to 
start. Nonetheless, the causes of this issue have already been figured:

According to comment #32 in the freedesktop site ( 
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57365#c32 ), the fix has 
been introduced in the 3.9 series.

Believe it or not, the last stable release in which X is able to start 
is 3.6.11. The whole 3.7 and 3.8 series together were unable to tackle 
this issue down. Seems that Intel is not doing its homework here :(

My question is:

Knowing that the following patches solve the issue, can they be 
backported and included in the next release of 3.8 ?

Thank you very much,
Lucas


commit 24a1f16de97c4cf0029d9acd04be06db32208726
Author: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@linux.intel.com>
Date:   Fri Feb 8 16:35:37 2013 +0200

     drm/i915: disable shared panel fitter for pipe


commit 9d6d9f19e8146fa24903cb561e204a22232740e3
Author: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@linux.intel.com>
Date:   Fri Feb 8 16:35:38 2013 +0200

     drm/i915: clean up panel fitter handling in lvds