Possibly problem with 4.2.0 kernel

Russel Winder russel at winder.org.uk
Sun Jul 19 10:41:59 UTC 2015


On Sun, 2015-07-19 at 10:41 +0100, Russel Winder wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> A recent update to the 4.2.0 kernel and directly associated bits has
> caused a problem with the video on my Lenovo T500. The X201 and X1 
> are
> fine, but the T500 is unusable. It looks like a video writing/refresh
> bug of some weird sort. Bizarrely an earlier 4.2.0 worked fine, but I
> cannot go back to that as I only keep the last RC. I have 4.1.0 of
> course and that seems to work fine still.
> 
> This email is really to ask:
> 
> – which is the right place for this bug report? I am guessing the
> Fedora bugzilla as the default.
> 
> – what data should I provide in the bug report to make it credible 
> and
> taken seriously? (Even though it must be a relatively obscure bug 
> given
> it only affects the T500.)
> 
> Thanks.

I should also note that it only affects the Intel video. If I force
using the ATI Radeon video everything is fine. So the question is what
have they done wrong with the Intel drivers?

-- 
Russel.
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