[Intel-gfx] Blog regarding i915 changes in kernel 3.9

[William Brown]

On Tue, 2013-02-19 at 11:35 +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote: 
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 7:29 AM, William Brown <william at firstyear.id.au> wrote:
> > I recently read your blog article at :
> > http://blog.ffwll.ch/2013/02/neat-drmi915-stuff-for-39.html
> >
> > If you don't mind I have two questions regarding these changes.
> >
> > Do any of these fixes correct the black screen on dual gpu laptops when
> > switching to the i915?
> 
> There are billions of ways you can end up with a black screen, so can't tell.
> 
> > Do these changes affect the issue where on a dual gpu laptop both the
> > i915 and discrete gpu are powered on at boot?
> >
> > If these issues are new to you, Would you mind sending me some hints on
> > how to track them down and potentially correct them?
> 
> Please file a bug report against DRI -> DRM(Intel) on
> bugs.freedesktop.org with a clear description of how things fail and
> all the usual details about your hw.
> 
> Also, please _always_ cc and appropriate mailing list when poking your
> maintainer, he might be lazy, busy, drunken or on vacation ;-)
> 
> Cheers, Daniel

Thanks.

I didn't know what the correct mailing list was, nor the right bug
tracker. I have as such, made two bugs on that bugzilla describing the
issues. Of course, I'm happy to provide more information and time
debugging and solving it.



-- 
Sincerely,

William Brown

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