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Bug#738991: linux-image-3.12-1-amd64: Dell E7230 (and similar) : unable to use external monitor through dock



Control: forwarded -1 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73694
Control: tag -1 - patch

On Fri, 2014-02-14 at 17:48 +0100, Itaï BEN YAACOV wrote:
> Package: src:linux
> Version: 3.12.9-1
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch upstream
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> As per https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73694 ,
> connecting an external monitor via a port replicator does not work, and one gets
> lots of 
> 
> 
> 
> [   71.064428] [drm:intel_dp_complete_link_train] *ERROR* failed to train DP, aborting
> [   72.050687] [drm:intel_dp_complete_link_train] *ERROR* failed to train DP, aborting
> [   72.896907] [drm:intel_dp_complete_link_train] *ERROR* failed to train DP, aborting
> 
> 
> Comment 2 to that bug suggests a patch https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=92231
> It works for me against 3.12 and the reporter said it worked against 3.13 as well.
> 
> Please include !
[...]

Sorry, that's just a test patch and it might cause regressions for other
systems.  We shouldn't apply it until the upstream developers agree that
it's good.

You could ask why it hasn't been applied upstream yet.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
You can't have everything.  Where would you put it?

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