When I boot my Thinkpad T410 in a docking station with the lid closed, the lvds panel remains blank even when this output is active. This happens up to and including 3.5-rc2.
I've determined that this happens because lvds isn't being initialized by the bios when I boot this way, and booting with lvds_channel_mode=2 fixes the issue. I see that there's logic in is_dual_link_lvds() intended to detect this situation, but it's failing because the T410 has the LVDS_PIPEB_SELECT bit set. The simple patch below fixes my machine by masking off this bit when determining whether or not lvds was initialized by the bios.
I'm not sure though whether or not it's correct to expect that this bit might be set when lvds hasn't been initialized. The alternative seems to be quirking this machine as is done for some Macbooks. What is the correct solution?
Thanks, Seth
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From: Seth Forshee seth.forshee@canonical.com Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 16:52:14 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] drm/i915: ignore LVDS_PIPEB_SELECT when checking for LVDS register initialization
The Lenovo Thinkpad T410 has this bit set in the LVDS register when booted with the lid closed, even though the LVDS hasn't really been initialized. Ignore this bit so that the VBT value will be used instead.
Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee seth.forshee@canonical.com --- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c index e0aa064..f81f249 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c @@ -434,7 +434,7 @@ static bool is_dual_link_lvds(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv, * register is uninitialized. */ val = I915_READ(reg); - if (!(val & ~LVDS_DETECTED)) + if (!(val & ~(LVDS_PIPEB_SELECT | LVDS_DETECTED))) val = dev_priv->bios_lvds_val; dev_priv->lvds_val = val; }