Bug#529830: git bisecting

[Alex Deucher]

On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Adrian Knoth <adi at drcomp.erfurt.thur.de> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 10:04:34AM -0400, Alex Deucher wrote:
>
>> > It's a HP nx6325 laptop with ATI xpress 200M (RS482).
>> Any chance you could use git bisect to track down what changes in the
>> radeon driver caused the problem?
>
> adi at chopin:~/xserver-xorg-video-ati$ git bisect good
> b6cd47ec007af2022af180f537a7ba01244b2c88 is first bad commit
> commit b6cd47ec007af2022af180f537a7ba01244b2c88
> Author: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com>
> Date:   Fri May 8 12:21:33 2009 -0400
>
>    AVIVO: fix cursor corruption bands for real
>
>    Don't have to leave both cursors enabled, just have to use
>    the same mode for both cursors whether or not they are enabled.
>
> :040000 040000 9434b74a8329bf6cd6c076fe512a333834641e99 e2bfdc6168042c7a1a6ef14b60ded5c6655fda77 M      src
>
>

weird.  This shouldn't affect your card at all.

> adi at chopin:~/xserver-xorg-video-ati$ git bisect log
> git bisect start
> # bad: [9ac2b8b802923eac33301424e8f00571c765cb82] Prepare changelog for
> # upload
> git bisect bad 9ac2b8b802923eac33301424e8f00571c765cb82
> # good: [efa0fc15c2c99dea89f3b212f1667d49592c36b9] Prepare changelog for
> # upload
> git bisect good efa0fc15c2c99dea89f3b212f1667d49592c36b9
> # good: [fbb04716e4c28347c9e627f3cc78b4420e9abfa0] AVIVO: better fix for
> # cursor flickering/corruption issues
> git bisect good fbb04716e4c28347c9e627f3cc78b4420e9abfa0
> # good: [fbb04716e4c28347c9e627f3cc78b4420e9abfa0] AVIVO: better fix for
> # cursor flickering/corruption issues
> git bisect good fbb04716e4c28347c9e627f3cc78b4420e9abfa0
> # bad: [cd03bc17ccb30f1598af61c455b623c14ea42e6b] r3xx-r5xx: switch to
> # 1/12 subpixel precision
> git bisect bad cd03bc17ccb30f1598af61c455b623c14ea42e6b
> # bad: [b6cd47ec007af2022af180f537a7ba01244b2c88] AVIVO: fix cursor
> # corruption bands for real
> git bisect bad b6cd47ec007af2022af180f537a7ba01244b2c88
> # good: [0e49efbe8c271c26cec4dfca063c73755dc2d25f] r2xx-r4xx: fix typo
> # in last i2c fix and clarify hw i2c pin sel
> git bisect good 0e49efbe8c271c26cec4dfca063c73755dc2d25f
> # good: [0e49efbe8c271c26cec4dfca063c73755dc2d25f] r2xx-r4xx: fix typo
> # in last i2c fix and clarify hw i2c pin sel
> git bisect good 0e49efbe8c271c26cec4dfca063c73755dc2d25f
> # good: [cb8081a8e70b3354037f8ca99380288fe2eb9828] AVIVO: move cusor
> # offscreen when disabling
> git bisect good cb8081a8e70b3354037f8ca99380288fe2eb9828
>
>
>> Also, have you made any changes to your suspend/resume scripts (i.e.,
>> added or removed vbetool post options)?
>
> No.
>
>> Also is it just suspend to ram or suspend to disk or both?
>
> I can only speak for suspend to ram, since my swap partition is too
> small for suspend to disk.
>
>
> HTH.
>
> BTW: Do you think that's the same bug?
>
>   https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16537

Maybe; it's hard to say.  Seems like it used to work for you recently.
 Suspend/resume is problematic on a lot of cards probably not the same
issue in all cases.

Alex