Re: Possibly problem with 4.2.0 kernel

2015-07-24 Thread Russel Winder
On Sun, 2015-07-19 at 10:11 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > […] > There have been fixes going in for the i915 driver. I have switched > back > to the 4.1 kernel on the affected machine, but will be trying rc3 > kernel > when a build is available. I just updated and it all seems to be working

Re: Possibly problem with 4.2.0 kernel

2015-07-24 Thread Russel Winder
On Sun, 2015-07-19 at 20:15 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > […] > > Quite a lot of devs use Thinkpads, so it's usually not too unlikely > that it'll get fixed. :) Thanks! Adam, I just pulled the latest updates, and everything appears to work again – even before I entered a bug report. I shall ke

Re: Possibly problem with 4.2.0 kernel

2015-07-19 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2015-07-19 at 10:41 +0100, Russel Winder wrote: > Hi, > > A recent update to the 4.2.0 kernel and directly associated bits has > caused a problem with the video on my Lenovo T500. The X201 and X1 > are > fine, but the T500 is unusable. It looks like a video writing/refresh > bug of some w

Re: Possibly problem with 4.2.0 kernel

2015-07-19 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 11:41:59 +0100, Russel Winder wrote: I should also note that it only affects the Intel video. If I force using the ATI Radeon video everything is fine. So the question is what have they done wrong with the Intel drivers? There have been fixes going in for the i915 dri

Re: Possibly problem with 4.2.0 kernel

2015-07-19 Thread Russel Winder
On Sun, 2015-07-19 at 10:41 +0100, Russel Winder wrote: > Hi, > > A recent update to the 4.2.0 kernel and directly associated bits has > caused a problem with the video on my Lenovo T500. The X201 and X1 > are > fine, but the T500 is unusable. It looks like a video writing/refresh > bug of some w

Possibly problem with 4.2.0 kernel

2015-07-19 Thread Russel Winder
Hi, A recent update to the 4.2.0 kernel and directly associated bits has caused a problem with the video on my Lenovo T500. The X201 and X1 are fine, but the T500 is unusable. It looks like a video writing/refresh bug of some weird sort. Bizarrely an earlier 4.2.0 worked fine, but I cannot go back