Re: 3.1-rc5 is the worst

From: Francis Moreau
Date: Sat Sep 10 2011 - 15:42:50 EST


On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Keith Packard <keithp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 11:57:06 +0200, Francis Moreau <francis.moro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> 3/ video: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics
>> Controller (rev 18) drived by 'i915': sometime after resuming or after
>> leaving the black screensaver, the screen seems to be frozen and I
>> need to switch to tty1 and switch back to the graphic screen in order
>> to make the screen refreshed again.
>
> Can you try disabling fbc and see if this helps?
>
> i915.i915_enable_fbc=0
>
> We've gotten a few minor regression reports that this fixes; we're
> working on isolating the cause if possible.

of course I'm having hard time to reproduce now :)

Any idea how can I force the screen to sleep ?

Setting the timer to 1 min with the gnome interface doesn't work....

Thanks
--
Francis
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