From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752729Ab0APWGi (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:06:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752398Ab0APWGg (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:06:36 -0500 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:37206 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751001Ab0APWGg (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:06:36 -0500 Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 14:04:07 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds X-X-Sender: torvalds@localhost.localdomain To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" cc: m.s.tsirkin@gmail.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Adrian Bunk , Andrew Morton , Natalie Protasevich , Kernel Testers List , Network Development Subject: Re: 2.6.33-rc2: Reported regressions from 2.6.32 In-Reply-To: <201001162257.16277.rjw@sisk.pl> Message-ID: References: <20100116174821.GA18306@redhat.com> <201001162257.16277.rjw@sisk.pl> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 16 Jan 2010, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > Immediately upon startup, screen is flickering (becomes > > lighter and darker again). The problem occurs with kernels > > 2.6.33-rc1 to 2.6.33-rc4, but not with kernel 2.6.32 and below. > > We've already had several reports like this already. > > Care to review the bugs linked to http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14885 > and check if none of them matches the problem you describe? I suspect that should be fixed by commit 33814341f22 ("drm/i915: disable LVDS downclock by default") that got merged today. So try current -git. Linus