3.6-rc1 breaks my laptop graphics (intel)

Daniel Vetter daniel at ffwll.ch
Sun Aug 12 11:25:31 PDT 2012


On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 11:21:57AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> Hi Daniel.
> 
> The 3.6-rc1 kernel breaks my laptop, booting to a black screen when the
> i915 driver initializes itself.  I bisected this down to commit
> 24ded204429fa0f5501d37c63ee35c555c0b75ee (drm/i915: properly enable the
> blc controller on the right pipe), and when I revert that, and also
> a4f32fc3a37e982fffce8ec583643990ff288419 (drm/i915: don't forget the PCH
> backlight registers) which depended on the first patch, my laptop works
> just fine.
> 
> Below is the combined revert.
> 
> Any thoughts?  Any patch I can try out?

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~danvet/drm-intel/commit/?h=drm-intel-fixes&id=770c12312ad617172b1a65b911d3e6564fc5aca8

which is already merged to drm-intel-fixes.

Thanks, Daniel
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