From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262712AbUKEQIh (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Nov 2004 11:08:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262717AbUKEQIg (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Nov 2004 11:08:36 -0500 Received: from mx.inch.com ([216.223.198.27]:64274 "EHLO util.inch.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262712AbUKEQHA (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Nov 2004 11:07:00 -0500 Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 11:06:49 -0500 (EST) From: John McGowan To: Dave Airlie cc: Bill Davidsen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Kernel 2.6.9: i810 video In-Reply-To: <21d7e99704110421597deb381c@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20041105110215.I85742@shell.inch.com> References: <21d7e99704110314156bb270de@mail.gmail.com> <20041102215308.GA3579@localhost.localdomain> <20041103234045.G92772@shell.inch.com> <418AA075.3070303@tmr.com> <20041104172521.I42459@shell.inch.com> <21d7e99704110421597deb381c@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Dave Airlie wrote: > > > > By the way, the X server runs. There is no problem with that. > > > > If I start it (say, with ICE as a window manager starting up an xterm) > > *immediately after boot* I get a clean, black screen. It should be dark > > green. I get the frame for the xterm. No xterm. I can right click to get > > the menu to display on the screen but it gets locked there. I can right > > click again to get a working menu and choose to logout. > > > > If I do something befor starting it, the screen is filled with junk. > > Something is writing to the video ram. If I close it and restar it, > > different junk. > > > > It seems that the initialization of the i810 is leaving its video ram > > free to be grabbed and used. > > Can you throw your .config this way as well, I've just built 2.6.9 > with i810 drm and no i810 framebuffer (CONFIG_DRM_I810 and > !CONFIG_FB_I810) and played tuxracer just fine for a few minutes under > a gnome session on a Fedora core 1 box with a prerelease of Xorg > 6.8... (my i810 test machine doesn't get taken out all that often...) > > I did just modprobe the i810 framebuffer module I also built and try > to start X and X wouldn't start with a unable to bind system texture > memory,.... so trying building a kernel without i810 framebuffer > switched on a see what happens.. I had compiled a kernel without frame buffer (no frame buffer support at all). Starting X gave the same screen (if I start X after doing something, it come up with junk on it - if I start X immediately after booting, it comes up black (should be dark green) and is unusable). Let me try the simplest kernel configuration I can. Regards from: John McGowan | jmcgowan@inch.com [Internet Channel] | jmcgowan@coin.org [COIN] --------------+-----------------------------------------------------