[Nouveau] nv50 mouse cursor disappears hourly

[Brian DeRocher]

On Sunday 14 March 2010 05:37:59 you wrote:
> Is this a regression ? Did you build an earlier kernel that worked ?
> .git/logs/HEAD might help.

Here's the whole file.

0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 a8072c2a92a13511e28edbec015b58c6b66c35c9
 root <root at bregalad.noblis.org> 1260291438 -0500      clone: from git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/nouveau/linux-2.6

a8072c2a92a13511e28edbec015b58c6b66c35c9 a733b93582023fd100c5ce6430f3a0b0f26af86c
 root <root at bregalad.noblis.org> 1266534758 -0500      pull : Fast-forward

a733b93582023fd100c5ce6430f3a0b0f26af86c d03ab2d78b6ab62e94f9958da50b4419c27e0f60
 root <root at bregalad.noblis.org> 1267454502 -0500      pull : Fast-forward

I'm trying to remember the history.  Here are the dates of those updates.

2009-12-08  Merge remote branch 'korg/drm-radeon-dp' into drm-linus  Dave Airlie  24  -323/+2657
2010-02-17  drm/nouveau: fix i2ctable bounds checking  Marcin Slusarz  1  -3/+4
2010-03-01  drm/nv50: Improve PGRAPH interrupt handling.  Marcin Kościelnicki  7  -56/+622

After the first cloning, the other packages like drm or xf86-video-nouveau didn't compile.  So i reverted back to using a stock debian kernel.

After the first update.  I'm pretty sure it was working correctly.  No cursors disappearing.

After the second update clearly it's failing.

I'd be glad to revert back and test, if someone would help me with the git commands.  Should i try git bisect?

I suppose i'll need to do the same with drm and xf86-video-nouveau in order to (1) get it to compile and (2) recreate the same conditions.  Is that right?

thanks,
Brian