Bug#570466: it's been a month, is this still a problem?

[Alex Deucher]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Rémi Letot <hobbes at poukram.net> wrote:
> Le 21/02/11 19:01, Cyril Brulebois a écrit :
>>
>> Hi Rémi,
>>
>> Rémi Letot<hobbes at poukram.net>  (26/10/2010):
>>>
>>> I have tried that option on 2.6.36 and 2.6.32 from sid, and I
>>> haven't had a single blackout for more than one week. It could still
>>> be a coincidence since the problem is completely random, but that
>>> would be a huge one...
>>> […]
>>> I'll try to build that and use it at my next reboot.
>>
>> what's the status with 2.6.37-1-$arch available in sid (possibly with
>> an up-to-date X stack in sid)?
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm tracking sid for most of the system, and experimental when available for
> the X stack.
>
> Since I reported the bug, the only combination that was potentially free
> from blackouts was with kernel 2.6.37-rc7. I say potentially because I'm not
> 100% sure, but I can't remember having had a blackout with that kernel. But
> I don't have that package anymore, so I can't verify that.
>
> I rebooted this morning to 2.6.37-1 and got several blackouts since then.
> The blackouts tend to disappear when uptime rises, so I don't reboot often
> :-)
>
> By the way, the radeon.new_pll=0 trick has not been possible with 2.6.37. As
> passing that option while booting used to solve the problem (or more
> probably hide it), has that option been renamed or is it gone ?

It was removed in 2.6.37 as it always uses the old pll algo.  However,
there were a lot of pll fixes in 2.6.38 that should show up in the
stable stream as well.
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=a6f9761743bf35b052180f4a8bdae4d2cc0465f6
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=51d4bf840a27fe02c883ddc6d9708af056773769
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=f523f74eac1897b13c05c88ce6e5de0a7c34578b
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=619efb105924d8cafa0c1dd9389e9ab506f5425d
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=a4b40d5d97f5c9ad0b7f4bf2818291ca184bb433
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=5b40ddf888398ce4cccbf3b9d0a18d90149ed7ff
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=9f4283f49f0a96a64c5a45fe56f0f8c942885eef

Alex

>
> Thanks,
> --
> Rémi
>