i915: 2.6.36-rc2 hoses my Intel display

[Maciej Rutecki]

On poniedziałek, 23 sierpnia 2010 o 19:01:45 Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> So I decided to fire up -rc2 today to see what would happen...the
> results are best described by the attached images.  Something is
> clearly scrambled between my hardware and the i915 driver.  Display with X
> is hosed, but things go weird before X gets a chance to run (it is worth
> noting that the initial output from the kernel is legible).
> 
> FWIW, my hardware is:
> 
> 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82Q35 Express Integrated
> Graphics Controller (rev 02) Subsystem: Dell OptiPlex 755
> 	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
> Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+
> ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
> Latency: 0
> 	Region 0: Memory at fea80000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
> 	Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2
> 		Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA
> PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0
> DScale=0 PME-
> 
> What else can I provide to help track this one down?

I created a Bugzilla entry at 
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17151
for your bug report, please add your address to the CC list in there, thanks!

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Maciej Rutecki
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