On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 03:10:26PM -0300, Lucas wrote: > On 05/04/13 14:40, Greg KH wrote: > >I'm announcing the release of the 3.8.6 kernel. > > > >All users of the 3.8 kernel series must upgrade. > > > >The updated 3.8.y git tree can be found at: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-3.8.y > >and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser: > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git;a=summary > > > >thanks, > > > >greg k-h > > > > Hi Greg, I have an issue with a Lenovo T60's Notebook, which has an > Intel VGA card. > > [lucas@tux ~]$ lspci | grep "VGA" > 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile > 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev > 03) > > The screen turns black whenever X is executed, due to the following bug: > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57365 > > https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/33062 > > Those sites havethe error output that is generated from X attempts > to start. Nonetheless, the causes of this issue have already been > figured: > > According to comment #32 in the freedesktop site ( > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57365#c32 ), the fix > has been introduced in the 3.9 series. > > Believe it or not, the last stable release in which X is able to > start is 3.6.11. The whole 3.7 and 3.8 series together were unable > to tackle this issue down. Seems that Intel is not doing its > homework here :( > > My question is: > > Knowing that the following patches solve the issue, can they be > backported and included in the next release of 3.8 ? > > Thank you very much, > Lucas > > > commit 24a1f16de97c4cf0029d9acd04be06db32208726 > Author: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Fri Feb 8 16:35:37 2013 +0200 > > drm/i915: disable shared panel fitter for pipe > > > commit 9d6d9f19e8146fa24903cb561e204a22232740e3 > Author: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Fri Feb 8 16:35:38 2013 +0200 > > drm/i915: clean up panel fitter handling in lvds Sure, can you cc: the authors of those patches, and anyone who signed-off on them in order to get their approval as well? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html