On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:04:36 +0100 Mike Lothian <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi > > I've noticed some horrible screen corruption using the lastest git > xorg & intel stack with in X. > > I've made the screen usable by booting with i915.modeset=0 with > Linus's latest tree (this just gives me a back screen with the > intel-next tree) > > I think the problem surfaced the same time as the tiling patches > appeared - is there a way to disable tiling to test this? > > My 2.6.29 and last weeks git kernels would refuse to startx for very > long not allowing kde to start (it was possible to recognise the > loading screen) it would just crash X then try and start it again > > The latest intel-next tree allows KDE to start WITH the corruption now > when KMS is enabled. When I VT switch the consoles look fine, it's > only X that's corrupted > > Hope this isn't too random a bug report On GM45 you'll need http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/anholt/drm-intel.git;a=commit;h=f544847fbaf099278343f875987a983f2b913134 which is currently in Eric's drm-intel-next branch. Otherwise in a KMS config the 2D driver will try to use a tiled buffer but the kernel won't set it up properly and you'll just get corruption. -- Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
