My Q67 / i7-2600 box has rev09 Sandy Bridge graphics. It hangs
instantly when GNOME loads and it hangs so hard the reset button
doesn't work. Setting i915.semaphore=0 fixes it.
Semaphores were disabled in
a1656b9090f7 ("drm/i915: Disable GPU
semaphores by default") in 2.6.38 but were then re-enabled (by mistake?)
by the merge
47ae63e0c2e5 ("Merge branch 'drm-intel-fixes' into
drm-intel-next").
(It's worth noting that the offending change is i915_drv.c, which was
not marked as a conflict - although a 'git show --cc' on the merge does
show that neither parent had it set to 1)
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
unsigned int i915_powersave = 1;
module_param_named(powersave, i915_powersave, int, 0600);
-unsigned int i915_semaphores = 1;
+unsigned int i915_semaphores = 0;
module_param_named(semaphores, i915_semaphores, int, 0600);
unsigned int i915_enable_rc6 = 0;