From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: 2.5.64-mm6 References: <20030313032615.7ca491d6.akpm@digeo.com> <87bs0eqors.fsf@lapper.ihatent.com> <20030314035532.3fb6e351.akpm@digeo.com> From: Alexander Hoogerhuis Date: 15 Mar 2003 09:38:23 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20030314035532.3fb6e351.akpm@digeo.com> Message-ID: <8765qlnhxc.fsf@lapper.ihatent.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Andrew Morton writes: > Alexander Hoogerhuis wrote: > > > > I've used tried the -mm-kernels since they've actually made > > 2.5-kernels usable on my laptop lately (Compaq Evo800c), but > > 2.5.64-mm2 and onwards doesnt work with X anymore. I run 4.3.0-r1 from > > the Gentoo unstable "branch". > > > > with -mm1 I X coming up just nicely, and now the screen just goes > > black after trying to start X, and it seems related to DRM. > > I have a radeon card here. Just tried it. The X server starts up OK but as > soon as I run tuxracer, some ioctl down in the radeon driver keeps on timing > out waiting for the FIFO, spins for ten milliseconds in-kernel and the X > server immediately calls the ioctl again. The whole thing is bust. I went > all the way back to 2.5.39, where it is still bust. 2.4.21-pre5 is OK > though. > > So it looks like my breakage is different from yours. > > Could you please try just 2.5.64 plus > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.5/2.5.64/2.5.64-mm6/broken-out/linus.patch > > That will tell us if it is a -mm bug or a -linus bug. > Vanilla 2.5.64 is b0rken, too. Tried it, and went back and tries -mm6 with and without ACPI as well, no difference. So instead of trudging through that liste of change sets, I'll back out one and one patch from -mm1 back to plain .64 to see where the thing goes belly up. Seems reasonable? mvh, A -- Alexander Hoogerhuis | alexh@ihatent.com CCNP - CCDP - MCNE - CCSE | +47 908 21 485 "You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it." --Scott McNealy -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org