reassign 627976 src:linux-2.6 2.6.39-2 affects 627976 xserver-xorg-video-intel thanks Hi, quoting in full for the kernel team. Tarek Soliman <tarek-spam@zeusmail.bounceme.net> (20/06/2011): > Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel > Version: 2:2.15.0-3 > Followup-For: Bug #627976 > > More findings: > > This only seems to happen with SDL applications. (e.g scummvm and dosbox) > > This doesn't happen right away, causing a lot of false hope that it is fixed. > > Good news: > > I found some patches upsteam that seemed to resolve the issue. > > I got linus's kernel > (git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git) > and got all commits done to drivers/gpu/drm/i915/ between the 2.6.39 > tag and the latest master I applied all of them to the current kernel > and recompiled and now the problem doesn't happen. Many thanks for doing so! > I am talking about 74 commits and didn't bother to figure out which > ones are the relevant ones. I takes over an hour for me to recompile > the kernel every time so I just shotgub debugged by throwing all the > patches at it. > > I've attached all those patches here in the hopes that someone may > benefit from this. A list of commits would have been sufficient. ;-) With this mail, reassigning to the kernel accordingly. Mraw, KiBi.
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