On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 17:18:12 -0800 Linus Torvalds wrote:
Another week, another -rc. This should be the last for the 37 series, so I still expect the merge window to open early January when people are hopefully back to working order after having eaten (and drunk) too much.
The -rc8 release shouldn't be all that exciting. The most noticeable is probably the fact that hopefully the "blank screen" problem with intel graphics is fixed. But on the whole, it's all just a collection of random fixes all over.
I booted -rc8 and found that my video worked for only a few seconds, then it goes blank. -rc7 and -rc6 do the same. -rc5 is OK.
The only significant difference that I can see in the kernel message log is this:
from 2.6.37-rc5:
[drm] initialized overlay support i2c i2c-3: master_xfer[0] W, addr=0x50, len=1 i2c i2c-3: master_xfer[1] R, addr=0x50, len=1 i2c i2c-3: master_xfer[0] W, addr=0x50, len=1 i2c i2c-3: master_xfer[1] R, addr=0x50, len=128 fbcon: inteldrmfb (fb0) is primary device Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 160x64 fb0: inteldrmfb frame buffer device drm: registered panic notifier [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20080730 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 0
and from 2.6.37-rc6:
[drm] initialized overlay support No connectors reported connected with modes [drm] Cannot find any crtc or sizes - going 1024x768 fbcon: inteldrmfb (fb0) is primary device Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48 fb0: inteldrmfb frame buffer device drm: registered panic notifier [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20080730 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 0
Full kernel boot logs are in http://www.xenotime.net/linux/logs/ (2637-rc5.notimes and 2637-rc6.notimes).
The 2.6.37-rc5 kernel config file is attached. It is close to an allmodconfig.
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