Re: Its winter in the northern hemisphere (aka various 2.6.37 regeressions)

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Tue Nov 30 2010 - 17:36:18 EST


On Tuesday, November 30, 2010, Tim Sander wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am currently running 2.6.37-rc2-00056-g2811036, which shows lot of snow...
> and yes i don't mean the snow outside of my window i mean the goddam snow on
> my LCD Screen which is connected via DVI-D with my onboard video controller
> RS880 [Radeon HD 4290]. And yes 2.6.36 works without any snow at all (It
> wasn't that cold outside either when i compiled it, that might be a reason ;-)
>
> The snow is btw. some mostly white pixel noise best only visible on a black
> screen.
>
> And while am it: the commit d33ef52d9db8a36900dd53f2e32db9a521ace259 breaks my
> kde login on debian sid. Finding this error is the result of quite some
> bisecting runs.

A revert of this commit is scheduled for inclusion into the next DRI push,
AFAICS.

Thanks,
Rafael
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