Re: [2/6] 2.6.21-rc2: known regressions

2007-03-09 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > You're better off using the VGA console, and lettign X re-initialize the > > graphics device. That generally at least has a reasonably good chance of > > working. > > > > Re-initializing graphics modes really is very hard. You can try with the > > BIOS video hack (I forget the kernel c

Re: Fix locking in mousedev

2007-03-09 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On 3/9/07, Pete Zaitcev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 09:28:49 -0500, "Dmitry Torokhov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/28/07, Pete Zaitcev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dmitry, please consider getting rid of the list of handles entirely. > > The other major user is drivers/ch

Re: Fix locking in mousedev

2007-03-09 Thread Pete Zaitcev
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 09:28:49 -0500, "Dmitry Torokhov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/28/07, Pete Zaitcev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dmitry, please consider getting rid of the list of handles entirely. > > The other major user is drivers/char/keyboard.c. > > I agree that handlers should not

Re: [2/6] 2.6.21-rc2: known regressions

2007-03-09 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > Some day we may have modesetting support in the kernel for some > > graphics hw, right now it's pretty damn spotty. > > having no video is what i'd have expected - but getting a /hang/ is not > what i'd have expected. I debugged a case exactly like t

Re: [2/6] 2.6.21-rc2: known regressions

2007-03-09 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > disabling the following radeonfb options in the .config made resume work > > again: > > In general, don't even *try* to use radeonfb for suspend/resume. > > I don't think it has ever worked, except on s

Re: Fix locking in mousedev

2007-03-09 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
Hi Pete, On 2/28/07, Pete Zaitcev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If a process is closing /dev/input/mice and an mouse disconnects simulta- neously, the system is likely to oops. This usually happens when someone hits F1 or logs out from X, and flips a KVM while the system is reacting. I reproduced

Re: [2/6] 2.6.21-rc2: known regressions

2007-03-09 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > disabling the following radeonfb options in the .config made resume work > > again: > > In general, don't even *try* to use radeonfb for suspend/resume. > > I don't think it has ever worked, except on some very rare laptops > (largely PPC Macs) where people had enough information to se

Re: [2/6] 2.6.21-rc2: known regressions

2007-03-09 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > disabling the following radeonfb options in the .config made resume > > work again: > > In general, don't even *try* to use radeonfb for suspend/resume. > > I don't think it has ever worked, except on some very rare laptops > (largely PPC Macs)