Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 12712] New: s2disk hangs with nvidiafb

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

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On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 09:41:11 -0800 (PST) bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org wrote:

> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12712
> 
>            Summary: s2disk hangs with nvidiafb
>            Product: Drivers
>            Version: 2.5
>      KernelVersion: 2.6.29-rc5
>           Platform: All
>         OS/Version: Linux
>               Tree: Mainline
>             Status: NEW
>           Severity: high
>           Priority: P1
>          Component: Video(AGP)
>         AssignedTo: airlied@linux.ie
>         ReportedBy: bender.rodriguez@open.by

This is an fbdev problem, I guess.  I'll reassign the report.

> 
> Latest working kernel version:2.6.29-rc5
> Earliest failing kernel version:not tested

I assume what you mean here is that 2.6.29-rc5 fails, and that you're
not aware of any earlier kernel version which did not fail.


> Distribution:debian lenny
> Hardware Environment:asus f3jc
> Software Environment:
> Problem Description: s2disk hangs before switching to console ("s2disk:
> Snapshotting system" message ->REISUB) with nvidiafb.
> 
> Device Drivers -> Graphics support -> Support for frame buffer devices -> [*]
> nVidia Framebuffer Support
> dmesg.0 | grep buf
> [    1.658735] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 160x50
> [    1.659929] nvidiafb: PCI nVidia NV1d framebuffer (64MB @ 0xC0000000)
> [    1.660386] vesafb: framebuffer at 0xc0000000, mapped to 0xfd180000, using
> 6144k, total 131072k
> [    1.660825] fb1: VESA VGA frame buffer device
> 
> hangs.
> 
> Device Drivers -> Graphics support -> Support for frame buffer devices -> []
> nVidia Framebuffer Support
> 
> dmesg | grep buf
> [    0.802424] vesafb: framebuffer at 0xc0000000, mapped to 0xf8080000, using
> 6144k, total 131072k
> [    0.862236] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
> [    0.922487] fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
> 
> in this case everything works OK.
> 


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