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From: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
To: Justin Madru <jdm64@gawab.com>
Cc: "Romano Giannetti" <romanol@upcomillas.es>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Saïvann Carignan" <oxmosys@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [regression?] Sometime (often) X come out blank (black screen) on cold boot - Intel chipset
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:58:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200806121358.01514.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <484F5582.5000805@gawab.com>

On Tuesday, June 10, 2008 9:33 pm Justin Madru wrote:
> Jesse,
>     It seems the problem might be related to usplash. In each reported
> case Ubuntu and usplash were used, and disabling usplash (at least for
> me) seems to fix the problem. Could there be some timing feature that
> usplash uses that isn't guaranteed/changed with some optimizations of
> CFS (or HR-timers) that went into 2.6.25? I've cc'ed Saïvann Carignan,
> who seems to be the most active contributer to usplash.

Yeah, usplash really seems to affect things to make the bug more visible, but 
I still suspect a timing bug in xf86-video-intel...  Unfortunately those are 
hard to find & debug, but we're working on some related stuff, so hopefully 
we'll find & fix it soon.

Thanks,
Jesse

      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-06-12 20:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-10 12:38 Romano Giannetti
2008-06-10 18:06 ` Jesse Barnes
2008-06-11  5:03   ` Romano Giannetti
2008-06-11 16:12     ` Jesse Barnes
2008-06-13 10:36       ` Romano Giannetti
2008-06-11  4:33 ` Justin Madru
2008-06-11  7:38   ` Romano Giannetti
2008-06-12 20:58   ` Jesse Barnes [this message]

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