From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Emanuele Rocca Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:08:40 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Fix for SB100/SB150 bootup hangs Message-Id: <20070416200840.GC3282@darkmoon.home> List-Id: References: <20070305.011139.78710584.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: <20070305.011139.78710584.davem@davemloft.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org * David Miller , [2007-04-16 12:53 -0700]: > From: Emanuele Rocca > Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 21:49:58 +0200 > > > Exactly, blank screen after 'Booting Linux...'. > > I have no idea what's going wrong then, and this kind of > but I can't really work on without physical access to > the system sorry. I really need to be in front of the > computer having this issue and do a lot of test boots > and debug statment frobbing to try and figure it out. Want to come to Italy? :-) BTW, we had reports from Debian users that ran into this bug also on ultra10, and I guess every machine with a Creator 3D card is affected. Nothing critical, though, given that with atyfb:off everything works properly. > > And the following messages, which didn't come out booting without atyfb: > > > > ioctl32(Xorg:4222): Unknown cmd fd(6) cmd(40584606){00} arg(fffd5a4c) on /dev/fb0 > > ioctl32(Xorg:4222): Unknown cmd fd(6) cmd(40184600){00} arg(fffd5a54) on /dev/fb0 > > That's normal and comes from the X server. > > If the X server doesn't bring up your screen X works pretty well. > What kernel version was that? 2.6.21-rc6 ciao, ema