PROBLEM: i915 regression between 2.6.39-rc6 and 2.6.39-rc7

2011-05-19 Thread Keith Packard
On Wed, 18 May 2011 20:15:05 +0200, Eric Leblond wrote: > I confirm that it is working fine when enabling semaphore. Thanks a lot > for the workaround, it is a pleasure to have a real laptop again ;) And, we'll keep trying to make it work without per-laptop configuration... -- keith.packard

Re: PROBLEM: i915 regression between 2.6.39-rc6 and 2.6.39-rc7

2011-05-19 Thread Keith Packard
On Wed, 18 May 2011 20:15:05 +0200, Eric Leblond e...@regit.org wrote: I confirm that it is working fine when enabling semaphore. Thanks a lot for the workaround, it is a pleasure to have a real laptop again ;) And, we'll keep trying to make it work without per-laptop configuration... --

PROBLEM: i915 regression between 2.6.39-rc6 and 2.6.39-rc7

2011-05-18 Thread Eric Leblond
Hello, On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 11:22 -0500, Michael Larabel wrote: > Try booting the latest kernel with "i915.semaphores=1" and it should be > fixed, at least for my SNB hardware. When I had it auto-bisected it came > down to this commit 087fbc9962e10a65fb0b542ecfc116ebf6cf1735 that > disabled

PROBLEM: i915 regression between 2.6.39-rc6 and 2.6.39-rc7

2011-05-18 Thread Michael Larabel
Try booting the latest kernel with "i915.semaphores=1" and it should be fixed, at least for my SNB hardware. When I had it auto-bisected it came down to this commit 087fbc9962e10a65fb0b542ecfc116ebf6cf1735 that disabled semaphores. -- Michael Larabel On 05/17/2011 07:06 AM, Eric Leblond

PROBLEM: i915 regression between 2.6.39-rc6 and 2.6.39-rc7

2011-05-18 Thread Eric Leblond
Hello, When running the 2.6.39-rc7, I've observed a problem on my laptop (DELL XPS15) which uses the i915 driver. Frequently, when moving the mouse over, the cursor does only trigger the modification on the desktop after a few seconds (like icons highligthing). When this occurs, the following

Re: PROBLEM: i915 regression between 2.6.39-rc6 and 2.6.39-rc7

2011-05-18 Thread Michael Larabel
Try booting the latest kernel with i915.semaphores=1 and it should be fixed, at least for my SNB hardware. When I had it auto-bisected it came down to this commit 087fbc9962e10a65fb0b542ecfc116ebf6cf1735 that disabled semaphores. -- Michael Larabel On 05/17/2011 07:06 AM, Eric Leblond wrote:

PROBLEM: i915 regression between 2.6.39-rc6 and 2.6.39-rc7

2011-05-17 Thread Eric Leblond
Hello, When running the 2.6.39-rc7, I've observed a problem on my laptop (DELL XPS15) which uses the i915 driver. Frequently, when moving the mouse over, the cursor does only trigger the modification on the desktop after a few seconds (like icons highligthing). When this occurs, the following