Re: i915 module bug (was: can't disable Thinkpad touchpad)
On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 03:26:30PM -0500, Don Armstrong wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jul 2015, Haines Brown wrote:
> > With the Touchpad problem resolved, my problem becomes the more basic
> > one of corruption of the display whenever I close the X server. But
> > this needs to be pursued in another thread.
>
> This is most likely https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85583
Don, it seems you are correct. The video display of the effect of bug
89813/85583 in the i915 kernel display module is exactly what I see
here.
As of 25 June there was a patch that at will be in "drm-intel-next-fixes
(for v4.2 and cc: stable), and the refactored version on
drm-intel-next-queued (for v4.3)".
The testing for the patch seems to have been done with kernel 3.16.0-4,
and my current kernel is 4.0.0-2-amd64.
By 6 July it seems a fix to the i915 module was accepted that addressed
my problem: http://osdir.com/ml/general/2015-07/msg07335.html,
Subject: Accepted linux 4.0.7-1 (all source) into unstable - msg#07335.
At kernel.org, there's available a stable kernel 4.1.2 dated 10
July. Although I've never ventured to compile a kernel, I suspect I
could download the tarball and try to compile it. Or am I on the wrong
track?
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