Re: Linux 2.6.31-rc7

2009-09-09 Thread Zhenyu Wang
On 2009.08.25 21:20:18 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > And how about MacBook 2.1, which apparently also goes black? > Linus, sorry for reply this old thread. I just handed on one MacBook with 945GM, and tried to find out the reason of black screen. It is TV detection that caused it. MacBook r

Re: Linux 2.6.31-rc7

2009-08-30 Thread Tino Keitel
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 15:07:55 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: [...] > However, the problem remains that KMS gets the output wrong, in ways that > clearly X does not. Eric - it's clearly not just Mac Mini and my > experimental machine that have problems, but also a Macbook 2.1. Hi Linus, for t

Re: Linux 2.6.31-rc7

2009-08-26 Thread Jesse Barnes
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:12:14 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds wrote: > In all three cases the end result is "no EDID", but regardless of > that, the correct action is basically _never_ to say "ok, I'll just > assume that the display is on connector XYZ regardless of what the > state of the graphics chip

Re: Linux 2.6.31-rc7

2009-08-26 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Dave Airlie wrote: > > 3. Here's the thing, we do detect something has changed, we detect we no > longer have a monitor connected on the mac mini because the routing > for the DDC pins is insane and need special treatment in the driver. That's the second thing - DDC in gene

Re: Linux 2.6.31-rc7

2009-08-26 Thread ykzhao
On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 11:58 +0800, Zhenyu Wang wrote: Hi From the config file it seems that the CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE is set as m. Will you please set it to y and see whether the black screen happens? Thanks. Yakui > On 2009.08.25 20:33:32 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Wed,

Re: Linux 2.6.31-rc7

2009-08-25 Thread Dave Airlie
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Eric Anholt wrote: > On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 13:47 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Linus >> Torvalds wrote: >> > >> > >> > On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Zhenyu Wang wrote: >> >> >> >> > In my experience, the BIOS setup doesn't reflect what outputs

Re: Linux 2.6.31-rc7

2009-08-25 Thread Dave Airlie
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Dave Airlie wrote: >> > >> > If you actually detected things _right_, none of this would be an issue. >> > But you don't. And you seem to have a really hard time even admitting >> > that. You try to re-detect things,

Re: Linux 2.6.31-rc7

2009-08-25 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Zhenyu Wang wrote: > > We can't depend on any BIOS display config as you noted before our driver. But you do. You depend on the even _less_ reliable existence of a VBT table. > And our driver does more flexible config than VBIOS does. If by "flexible" you mean "doesn't w

Re: Linux 2.6.31-rc7

2009-08-25 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Dave Airlie wrote: > > > > If you actually detected things _right_, none of this would be an issue. > > But you don't. And you seem to have a really hard time even admitting > > that. You try to re-detect things, and you SCREW UP. > > This isn't anything to do with redetecti

Re: Linux 2.6.31-rc7

2009-08-25 Thread Zhenyu Wang
On 2009.08.25 20:33:32 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Zhenyu Wang wrote: > > > > > In my experience, the BIOS setup doesn't reflect what outputs should be > > > used at runtime, and certainly not the correct configuration of the > > > enabled outputs. For example, if we went t

Re: Linux 2.6.31-rc7

2009-08-25 Thread Dave Airlie
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Zhenyu Wang wrote: >> >> > In my experience, the BIOS setup doesn't reflect what outputs should be >> > used at runtime, and certainly not the correct configuration of the >> > enabled outputs.  For example, if we wen

Re: Linux 2.6.31-rc7

2009-08-25 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Zhenyu Wang wrote: > > > In my experience, the BIOS setup doesn't reflect what outputs should be > > used at runtime, and certainly not the correct configuration of the > > enabled outputs. For example, if we went to this, the giant monitor > > attached to my laptop that I a

Re: Linux 2.6.31-rc7

2009-08-25 Thread Zhenyu Wang
On 2009.08.25 15:33:57 -0700, Eric Anholt wrote: > > However, the problem remains that KMS gets the output wrong, in ways that > > clearly X does not. Eric - it's clearly not just Mac Mini and my > > experimental machine that have problems, but also a Macbook 2.1. > > > > I wonder why the Intel

Re: Linux 2.6.31-rc7

2009-08-25 Thread Eric Anholt
On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 15:07 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, mailing54 wrote: > > > Linus Torvalds schrieb: > > > Are you using the same config? It sounds very much like your -rc7 problems > > > are due to the Intel KMS (kernel mode setting) driver, which I know has > > > ha

Re: Linux 2.6.31-rc7

2009-08-25 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, mailing54 wrote: > Linus Torvalds schrieb: > > Are you using the same config? It sounds very much like your -rc7 problems > > are due to the Intel KMS (kernel mode setting) driver, which I know has had > > problems on at least Mac Mini's. And I wonder if the -rc6 kernel deb