Bug#624549: bug in radeon driver module of linux 2.6.38 (since 2.6.35)

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Hi Martin,

Martin Teufel wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 04:46:08PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

>> Thanks for letting us know.  Could you try the patch from
>> 
>>   https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27708#c7
>> 
>> and boot with the drm.edid_strict=0 option?
>
> I applied this patch to the source tree of linux 2.6.38 with debian
> patches (package linux-source-2.6.38 of wheezy), compiled the kernel
> with the same config as of debians linux-image-2.6.38-2-amd64 (wheezy)
> and set 'drm_kms_helper.poll=0', but it had absolutely no affect. Same
> messages every 10 seconds.
>
> Any further suggestions?

No, aside from bisecting or studying the code.  But just to be sure:
drm_kms_helper.poll=0 != drm.edid_strict=0

Thanks and hope that helps,
Jonathan