Bug#569135: xserver-xorg-video-intel: corruption on external VGA display

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

fixed 569135 linux-2.6/2.6.36~rc5-1~experimental.1
found 569135 linux-2.6/2.6.32-35
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Christophe Rhodes wrote:

> I've just tested Debian version 2.6.32-5-686 (which I think corresponds
> roughly with 2.6.32.41, at least according to changelog.Debian.gz).
> Unfortunately the corruption on the external display is still present
> under the same conditions (no corruption when nothing changes on either
> display; large corruptions on motion).  Is that a recent enough kernel
> for the test to be interesting, or should I be building my own using
> higher patches

Thanks for checking.  Yep, I don't know of any drm fixes backported
since then worth mentioning here.

Could you get output from dmesg at bootup and when triggering the
corruption with drm.debug=0x6 on the kernel command line?