[Intel-gfx] Testing of patch attached to bug #17756

Jesse Barnes jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org
Thu Sep 25 18:18:31 CEST 2008


On Thursday, September 25, 2008 1:36 am Zhenyu Wang wrote:
> On 2008.09.25 08:51:47 +0100, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > The patch attached to bugzilla #17756 [1] is intended to fix an issue
> > with random black screen occurring with an i845. The problem was either
> > occurring at startup or when changing mode with xrandr.
> >
> > I am fairly confident that the patch does fix the issue I encountered
> > for the given hardware (based on my own tests of the patch, and it has
> > also been tested on more than 50 different machines for more than 3
> > weeks).
> >
> > However, I am not sure of the impact of this patch on other intel
> > chipsets, so it would be great to test the patch and see if that
> > introduces any regression with other hardware.
> >
> > [1] http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17756
>
> Thanks, I'll try to test with your patch tomorrow on 845G here.

I wonder if it'll help http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16284 as 
well; I don't have an 845G to test with...

Jesse



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