Bug#661696: drm/i915: wrong fifo size due to uncareful refactoring which results in an xserver crash at 800x600

2012-03-02 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Lukas Anzinger wrote: > looks good to me. Do you mean that the patch looks good or that you've tried applying it and the behavior was bad before and good afterward? (If you haven't tested it yet, here's a quick demo. apt-get install git build-essential; # prerequisites # if you don't alrea

Bug#661696: drm/i915: wrong fifo size due to uncareful refactoring which results in an xserver crash at 800x600

2012-03-02 Thread Lukas Anzinger
Hi Jonathan, looks good to me. I've also reported this bug upstream under #42839. Regards, Lukas On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 19:36, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > tags 661696 = upstream patch moreinfo > quit > > Hi Lukas, > > Lukas Anzinger wrote: > >> During a refactoring of the i915 driver a regressi

Bug#661696: drm/i915: wrong fifo size due to uncareful refactoring which results in an xserver crash at 800x600

2012-02-29 Thread Jonathan Nieder
tags 661696 = upstream patch moreinfo quit Hi Lukas, Lukas Anzinger wrote: > During a refactoring of the i915 driver a regression has been introduced > ([...]h=e70236a8d3d0a4c100a0b9f7d394d9bda9c56aca): For some chipsets > the wrong fifo size is determined which results in lot's of pixel > error

Bug#661696: drm/i915: wrong fifo size due to uncareful refactoring which results in an xserver crash at 800x600

2012-02-29 Thread Lukas Anzinger
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.32-41 Severity: important Tags: upstream patch Hi, I've encountered a nasty bug in the drm/i915 part of Debian's stable kernel. The code is also present in 2.6.33.20, which is the latest stable upstream release of 2.6.33.y at the time of writing. During a refact