Re: [REGRESSION] X doesn't work with 2.6.33 (can't find any input devices)

From: Dave Airlie
Date: Fri Mar 05 2010 - 00:18:16 EST


On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 1:17 AM, <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> After working around lvm breakage so I could at least boot 2.6.33, I'm
> now finding the next problem --- X doesn't work.  If I let X come up,
> it doesn't find any mouse or keyboard devices, so my machine becomes
> useless and I have to power cycle it unless I can log in remotely and
> reboot it.
>
> It worked just *fine* using 2.6.33-rc4.  I have no xorg.conf file (X
> is autoconfiguring itself) and I'm using an Ubuntu 9.10 userspace.
>
> I've enclosed the dmesg output (which shows the input devices
> correctly being detected by the kernel) and the Xorg.0.log file from
> the previous boot, where X does not come up.
>
> At this point, I'm not going to be able to dogfood test my ext4
> patches I plan to push to Linus, since 2.6.33 is completely useless to
> me.  Hopefully running the regression tests under KVM is going to have
> to be good enough.
>

Are you using 32 on 64 or anything like that?

15e184afa83a45cf8bafdb9dc906b97a8fbc974f is the only thing I can
see that might be close to changing something.

Dave.
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