xf86-video-intel: NEWS
Carl Worth
cworth at kemper.freedesktop.org
Wed Apr 15 16:34:10 PDT 2009
NEWS | 10 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
New commits:
commit e1cace16a6130dcdd93965d2329a349d49200fa6
Author: Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org>
Date: Wed Apr 15 16:33:12 2009 -0700
NEWS: Add note about broken PAT code in some kernels
Hoping to cut off some false bug reports here.
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index c059c98..0d0cd8a 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -19,6 +19,16 @@ this release, which should give the best performance and
robustness. When KMS is available, UXA is the default acceleration
used by the driver, (EXA is the default otherwise).
+Known issue:
+
+ Some Linux kernel versions (such as 2.6.29) are known to have
+ broken PAT code that causes recent versions of this driver to
+ fail, (which can manifest as the X server simply not
+ starting). This can be verified by adding the "nopat" option
+ to the kernel command-line and seeing the failure go away. We
+ hope that newer kernels in the 2.6.29.x as well as 2.6.30 and
+ above will have working PAT code.
+
Some of the most notable bugs fixed in 2.7.0 include:
[GM45 965GM] bad htotal causes panel startup failure
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