[ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-intel 2.2.0.90

[Timo Aaltonen]

On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:

> I wrote:
>> Jesse Barnes wrote:
>>> http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/driver/xf86-video-intel-2.2.0.90.tar.bz2
>>> MD5: 783c6d67dbebaea4a46ae78665f47a2c  xf86-video-intel-2.2.0.90.tar.bz2
>>> SHA1: 6c93afc8381c2b758f727f655dc61573a1f72b1d
>>> xf86-video-intel-2.2.0.90.tar.bz2
>>
>> On LFS LiveCD updated to Mesa 557b0d9 and xorg-server b6d4cdf (both from stable
>> branches), this hangs the machine (only cursor moves, no ability to get out with
>> Ctrl+Alt+F1 or Ctrl+Alt+Bksp) almost immediately after starting Xfce (it only
>> paints a splash screen and then freezes). This didn't happen with the previous
>> snapshot I tested (xf86-video-intel c35ab31), will try bisecting after work.
>
> Hello Jesse,
>
> your commit 52557ecc6df12d02b9808895394ca12702373e9b ("Only enable FBC if one
> pipe is active") broke the intel driver on my computer as described above. From
> the log message, I see that this commit is intending to fix other bugs, but
> trading one bug for another is no net gain. Could you please suggest steps that
> are needed to eliminate the problem?
>
> My configuration: G965, DVI-connected monitor (via HP DY-674A DVI adapter),
> onboard VGA port unused.

Same thing happens on Ubuntu Hardy, similar configuration, last lines of 
Xorg.0.log:

(II) Configured Mouse: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded
(II) intel(0): SDVO: W: 03                         (SDVO_CMD_GET_TRAINED_INPUTS)
(II) intel(0): SDVO: R: 01                      (Success)
(II) intel(0): SDVO: W: 05 01 00                   (SDVO_CMD_SET_ACTIVE_OUTPUTS)
(II) intel(0): SDVO: R:                         (Success)


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