From: Shaun Jackman <sjackman@telus.net>
To: "Petr Vandrovec" <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Hang after "BIOS data check successful" with DVI
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 12:07:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200408171207.53962.sjackman@telus.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E82D6B0981@vcnet.vc.cvut.cz>
On Tue August 17, 2004 03h57, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> On 16 Aug 04 at 16:55, Shaun Jackman wrote:
> > When I have a DVI display plugged into my Matrox G550 video card the
> > boot process hangs at "BIOS data check successful". I am running Linux
> > kernel 2.6.6. This problem does not affect Linux kernel 2.4.26. If I
> > boot without the DVI display plugged in, I can plug it in after the
> > boot process and the display works.
>
> Try disabling CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT and/or comment out call to store_edid
> in arch/i386/boot/video.S. Also which bootloader you use? From
> quick glance at bootloaders, grub1 seems to set %sp to 0x9000, while
> LILO to 0x0800. And I think that 2048 byte stack (plus something already
> allocated by loader) might be too small for DDC call, as MGA BIOS first
> creates EDID copy on stack...
> Best regards,
> Petr Vandrovec
I tried removing the call to store_edid and that does indeed fix my
problem!
Many thanks!
Shaun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-17 19:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-17 10:57 Hang after "BIOS data check successful" with DVI Petr Vandrovec
2004-08-17 13:51 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-08-17 16:58 ` Dave Jones
2004-08-17 19:07 ` Shaun Jackman [this message]
2004-08-17 19:08 ` Shaun Jackman
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2004-08-17 14:23 Petr Vandrovec
2004-08-16 23:55 Shaun Jackman
2004-08-16 19:07 ` Aaron Michael Bauman
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