[PATCH] xorg/driver/x86-video-intel: Avoid flicker on transition from the fb console to X

2011-04-11 Thread James Bottomley
This patch avoids flicker as the Linux boot fbcon gives way to X by taking an exact pixmap represenation of the fb console and rendering it to the X display before transitioning. --- The original patch seems to have been by Kristian Høgsberg, but every distro has a slight variation in their

[BUG] xrandr/desktop autoconfiguration problem with Intel chip

2011-04-10 Thread James Bottomley
The chip in question is this one: 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3056 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Memory at e820

Re: i915 backlight failure on resume with 2.6.27

2008-12-11 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 13:38 +, Sergio Monteiro Basto wrote: OK , at least on Fedora 10, we have on updates. A new kernel with message: Additional DRM/modesetting fixes for i915 and radeon drivers. A new release of Mesa and a new release of drv-intel (which in fedora still called

Re: i915 backlight failure on resume with 2.6.27

2008-12-02 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 13:08 +, Sergio Monteiro Basto wrote: On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 11:42 -0600, James Bottomley wrote: You probably remember the system, it's my fujitsu P7120 lifebook with the funny backlight wiring. Previously, suspend/resume was made to work by saving the PCI state

Re: i915 backlight failure on resume with 2.6.27

2008-12-02 Thread James Bottomley
On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 11:42 -0600, James Bottomley wrote: You probably remember the system, it's my fujitsu P7120 lifebook with the funny backlight wiring. Previously, suspend/resume was made to work by saving the PCI state including the legacy backlight register setting (and worked just

i915 backlight failure on resume with 2.6.27

2008-12-01 Thread James Bottomley
You probably remember the system, it's my fujitsu P7120 lifebook with the funny backlight wiring. Previously, suspend/resume was made to work by saving the PCI state including the legacy backlight register setting (and worked just fine when invoked with a hal quirk). On FC9, with the 2.6.26