radeon mobility x1600 broken since 3.4.0-rc6 (bisected)

[Jerome Glisse]

On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Hausensteiner Keg <skitching at apache.org> wrote:
> After some more experimenting with different versions, I'm getting odd
> results. So feel free to ignore this report..
>
> FYI, what I see is:
> * as noted, commits before bb6355 work fine (ie up to 3.4-rc6).
> * including commit bb6355, graphics freeze on the first transition after
> grub (Plymouth?)
> * the very next commit makes the (plymouth?) splash screen work, but the
> greeter screen display is corrupted; ctrl-alt-f2 works - if pressed
> immediately
> * this situation continues up until release v3.5^. But building v3.5 itself
> works perfectly! Presumably I've done something wrong here..
> * v3.6-rc3 displays the splash (plymouth?) screen fine, but instead of a
> greeter screen, screen goes blank.
>
> I'll try to make some more sense of this in the next few days - but
> suggestions are welcome.
>
> Sorry if I'm posting this in the wrong place - let me know if I should
> create a bugzilla entry or whatever.
>
> Regards,
> Simon
>

Does patch

http://people.freedesktop.org/~glisse/0001-drm-radeon-extra-type-safe-for-fence-emission.patch

Helps ?

Cheers,
Jerome