Re: 2.6.33-rc2: Reported regressions from 2.6.32

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Sun Jan 17 2010 - 07:35:32 EST


On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 02:04:07PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, 16 Jan 2010, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> >
> > > Immediately upon startup, screen is flickering (becomes
> > > lighter and darker again). The problem occurs with kernels
> > > 2.6.33-rc1 to 2.6.33-rc4, but not with kernel 2.6.32 and below.
> >
> > We've already had several reports like this already.
> >
> > Care to review the bugs linked to http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14885
> > and check if none of them matches the problem you describe?
>
> I suspect that should be fixed by commit 33814341f22 ("drm/i915: disable
> LVDS downclock by default") that got merged today.
>
> So try current -git.
>
> Linus


Tested with 6ccf80eb15ccaca4d3f1ab5162b9ded5eecd9971, still get
the flickering effect. so 33814341f22 does not seem to help.

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