Re: [Intel-gfx] 5.9-rc1: graphics regression moved from -next to mainline

From: Harald Arnesen
Date: Tue Aug 25 2020 - 12:32:15 EST


Jani Nikula [25.08.2020 11:55]:

> On Fri, 21 Aug 2020, Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Thu 2020-08-20 09:16:18, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>> On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 2:23 AM Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Yes, it seems they make things work. (Chris asked for new patch to be
>>> > tested, so I am switching to his kernel, but it survived longer than
>>> > it usually does.)
>>>
>>> Ok, so at worst we know how to solve it, at best the reverts won't be
>>> needed because Chris' patch will fix the issue properly.
>>>
>>> So I'll archive this thread, but remind me if this hasn't gotten
>>> sorted out in the later rc's.
>>
>> Yes, thank you, it seems we have a solution w/o the revert.
>
> For posterity, I'm told the fix is [1].
>
> BR,
> Jani.
>
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/intel-gfx/20200821123746.16904-1-joro@xxxxxxxxxx/

Doesn't fix it for me. As soon as I start XFCE, the mouse and keyboard
freeezes. I can still ssh into the machine

The three reverts (763fedd6a216, 7ac2d2536dfa and 9e0f9464e2ab) fixes
the bug for me.
--
Hilsen Harald