[Intel-gfx] mac mini busted in the 2.9.0 release?

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 02:10:54PM +0800, Jin, Gordon wrote:
> Zhenyu Wang wrote on Wednesday, October 14, 2009 10:02 AM:
> > On 2009.10.13 15:33:48 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> >> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:56:40PM +0200, Tino Keitel wrote:
> >>> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 23:40:52 +0200, Tino Keitel wrote:
> >>>> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 13:22:41 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> >>>>> I just updated my desktop to the 2.9.0 release, and now it no
> >>>>> longer works.  It's a mac mini, running with no xorg.conf file
> >>>>> for quite some time very nicely. 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> As you can see by the log below, for some reason the intel driver
> >>>>> does not think that a display is attached, yet it really is.  Any
> >>>>> ideas of what I can do to resolve this?
> >>>> 
> >>>> Works for me on my Mac mini Core2 Duo with
> >>>> 2.6.32-rc4-00001-gd93a8f8, no xorg.conf and the following versions
> >>>> from Debian Sid: 
> >>>> 
> >>>> ii  xserver-xorg-video-intel                              
> >>>> 2:2.9.0-1 ii  xserver-xorg-core                                   
> >>>> 2:1.6.4-2 
> >>> 
> >>> I rebooted into this kernel and attached my Xorg.0.log. Does your
> >>> kernel use KMS? Mine does.
> >> 
> >> Ah, it was enabled, but not by default.  Now it is, and it works
> >> properly! 
> >> 
> >> But I lost my console, so booting is "blind" until x starts up.  And
> >> as someone who breaks his kernel a lot, I need to see the console at
> >> boot time.
> > 
> > The blind problem is what I described the TV detect in loading time
> > would always fail and caused blank screen. The suggestion is that you
> > have to load fbcon to use your console then.
> > 
> >> 
> >> Heck, I can't even switch to a console anymore, I do that, and the
> >> screen goes inverted with my x display, but comes back when I switch
> >> back.  Is that a known bug? 
> >> 
> > 
> > We still can't get a mac mini here, so don't know about this issue,
> > could you file a bug to bugs.fd.o to mark this down?
> 
> I guess it's the same as http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24255?

No, the xorg part works, it just is that there is no console access.  So
this would be a different bug, right?

I'll go file a new bug...

thanks,

greg k-h