reassign 589077 linux-2.6 2.6.32-18 reassign 589075 linux-2.6 2.6.32-18 fixed 589077 2.6.35-1~experimental.1 fixed 589075 2.6.35-1~experimental.1 kthxbye
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 22:59:12 +0200, Wolfram Quester wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 07:45:04PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 20:31:28 +0200, Wolfram Quester wrote: > > > > > Hi altogether, > > > > > > I'm on a Macbook from 2007 an testing the intel driver in experimental > > > requested on debian-devel. > > > Since I upgraded I have rendering errors, especially of text in > > > gnome-terminal > > > (sometimes letter are missing, sometimes whole lines look as if someone > > > wiped > > > over them with a dirty sponge on a black board). Sometimes this not only > > > affects the text or inner area of windows, but also Window decorations and > > > menus with the distortion reaching into the inner areas of the winows. > > > This > > > artifact mainly happens in the upper left areas of the windows, rarely in > > > other > > > areas. > > > > > Please report this upstream, following the instructions at > > http://intellinuxgraphics.org/how_to_report_bug.html > > > I reported bug 589077 upstream and got the following reply from Chris > > Wilson: > > That's a result of an underrun, and since it only happens when both displays > > are connected it sounds like we are incorrectly using a low power mode, > > such as > > self-refresh or framebuffer compression, with multiple active pipes. > > > > This is fixed in 2.6.35. [9c928d168] > > So I upgraded to linux-image and linux-base 2.6.35 currently in experimental > and both bugs I reported against xserver-xorg-video-intel disappeared. So > hands-up for the experimental drivers, but it seems using them with kernel > 2.6.32 is error-prone. > Thanks, I'll reassign both bugs to the kernel then. 9c928d168 can be cherry-picked to squeeze's kernel to fix 589077, and if the fix for the other bug can be tracked down as well that would be great. Cheers, Julien
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