Hw to help debug an intel driver problem?

[Raúl Sánchez Siles]

manu wrote:

> Hi all,
> I have a laptop with a 852GM which used to work great with trunk until
> the end of july; well it had a few rough edges when using xrandr too
> much for tooglin between LVDS and VGA but it was OK.
> Now since a big update in August viewing a video full screen using Xv
> crashes the server (well xine crashes it right away and mplayer shows
> the video correctly but crashes when exiting), whereas everything was
> fine before (I did not update xine and mplayer in the meantime).
> So I decided to bisect the driver, but it does not compile as the other
> modules are too recent. So question is : how to bisect correctly?
> Thanks,
> Emmanuel
> 
> PS: I attach the logs just in case you can already do something with
> them

  I think what you are experiencing is
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12356.

  Regarding the debugggin thing, I advise you to look into the great git
documentation:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-bisect.html

  Mark as good the working git version and bad the first non-working git
version, then test every version git is producing meanwhile.

  Regards,

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     Raúl Sánchez Siles
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