Bug#560389: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686: [drm:i915_gem_madvise_ioctl] error and screen flickering

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

tags 560389 moreinfo
thanks

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 08:24:52PM +0100, Dirk Griesbach wrote:
> Package: linux-2.6
> Version: 2.6.32-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> With 2.6.32-1 dmesg throws the following error on a laptop with Intel
> 945GM integrated graphics and enabled kms every once in a while:
> 
> | [drm:i915_gem_madvise_ioctl] *ERROR* Attempted i915_gem_madvise_ioctl() on a pinned object
> 
> Additionally random screen flicker occurs.
> 
> While I was surfing the web with iceweasel the screen got a pinkish
> surface, making it unable to recognize something on the screen.
> Switching from or to console or restarting X didn't make it go away but
> the system was responding to (blindly inserted) user input and it was
> possible to change the backlight intensity.
> 
> There was no error message in the Xorg log.

Hi,
Please test the latest 2.6.32 kernel from unstable.

Thanks,
        Moritz