Problems with KMS on drm-intel-next branch

[Jesse Barnes]

On Sunday, March 15, 2009 6:23:59 am Mike Lothian wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've been using KMS  on Intel since it was merged with 2.6.29. In
> parallel to this I've also been testing the drm-intel-next branch of
> anholt's git tree
>
> This stopped working for me about 2 weeks ago.
>
> When the kernel normally switches to the correct resolution on
> mainline the drm-intel-next kernel turns the screen black then slowly
> gets brighter from the edges going through purple into white, showing
> all the imperfections in the screen
>
> I'm not sure what's happening in the background as my laptop never
> gets to the point where I can SSH in.
>
> It's a:
>
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4
> Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2a42] (rev 07)
> 00:02.1 Display controller [0380]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series
> Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2a43] (rev 07)
>
> Hope this helps in some way

If it used to work but now doesn't, you may be able to use "git bisect" to get 
down to the offending commit.  Either way, please file a bug at 
bugs.freedesktop.org for this problem if one doesn't already exist.

Thanks,
-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center