Re: completely lost as to what to do, or where to look.

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed May 21 2008 - 01:34:24 EST


On Wed, 21 May 2008 04:10:16 +0000 "Justin Mattock" <justinmattock@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello; I'm lost as to where to look in the kernel, as to why I'm
> receiving a black screen with startx
> DRI seems to be fine, I'm noticing a sema_init but am not sure if this
> is the cause of the blackness.
> any direction as to where I might look would be helpful.

Kernel version?

A git-bisect should get you down the the offending commit within an
hour or three. http://www.kernel.org/doc/local/git-quick.html has some
instructions.

But if you're on 2.6.26-rcX, be sure to use the very latest - a pile of
bad DRI code got reverted recently. This morning, I think.
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