[Intel-gfx] About KMS, FB and Intel drivers

[Jesse Barnes]

On Wednesday, January 21, 2009 12:37 pm Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 09:04:35AM -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> > I just pushed the fix, so you should be able to pull and get it.
>
> Thanks, I just pulled it and built it. Seems to work fine. I had a hang
> (xfwm was stuck, cursor moved fine etc but no way to change anything),
> which I couldn't reproduce. Maybe it was related to the fact I ran it
> through gdm (direct from console or running from slim it seems to work
> fine)
>
> I still have the WARNING kernel problem, and suspend fails. Well,
> suspend does success, but as soon as the laptop is suspended, it tries
> to resume and when the screen is on (with a blinking console cursor)
> (huge one, from a 80×24 console), the little led moon on the thinkpad is
> still on, and I can't do anything.

The warning should be fixed in airlied's tree.  Suspend/resume has been 
somewhat flakey for me with 2.6.29-rc* in general, but be sure you're not 
running a POST at resume time (no s3_bios options on the command line, no 
vbetool post in your resume path).

> I'm not sure suspend/resume is supposed to work with KVM, but just in
> case.

Oh no idea about KVM; I'm not sure what's expected to work in that config.

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Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center