From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 8 Mar 2003 15:42:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 8 Mar 2003 15:42:58 -0500 Received: from a089148.adsl.hansenet.de ([213.191.89.148]:10880 "EHLO ds666.starfleet") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 8 Mar 2003 15:42:56 -0500 Message-ID: <3E6A5861.7070507@portrix.net> Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2003 21:53:53 +0100 From: Jan Dittmer Organization: portrix.net GmbH User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030305 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jsimmons@infradead.org CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, siim@pld.ttu.ee Subject: Re: Console weirdness References: <3E6A1A7F.8090409@portrix.net> In-Reply-To: <3E6A1A7F.8090409@portrix.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Using patches from "http://phoenix.infradead.org/~jsimmons/fbdev.diff.gz" as suggested by Siim Vahtre, oops goes away, but the other problems persist. The console is even worse. Seeing a cursor blinking to the lower left, but the rest of the screen is pretty colorful ;-). Any specific kernel version I can try out? But I think rivafb was broken until recently... jan Jan Dittmer wrote: > I'm not seeing any boot messages during boot up. The fb-penguin gets > drawn though. X is starting fine and is usable and I even see the login > prompt - but nothing in between. This also happens with fb disabled. > Additionally I have the following warning in dmesg output after bootup. > Another thing I noticed is, that the last line of the screen doesn't > seem to get cleared in fb mode. So pressing 'Enter' will move the screen > contents up one line but the last line isn't cleared. > Otherwise this kernel is really working find. > .config is attached (latest bk). Let me know if I can provide any more > data. > > Greets, jan > > > rivafb: nVidia device/chipset 10DE0253 > rivafb: Detected CRTC controller 0 being used > rivafb: RIVA MTRR set to ON > rivafb: PCI nVidia NV20 framebuffer ver 0.9.5b (nVidiaGeForce4 T, 64MB @ > 0xD8000000) > Badness in kobject_register at lib/kobject.c:152 > Call Trace: > [] kobject_register+0x58/0x70 > [] bus_add_driver+0x5f/0xf0 > [] driver_register+0x2f/0x40 > [] pci_register_driver+0x47/0x60 > [] init+0x3a/0x160 > [] init+0x0/0x160 > [] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0x18 > > Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30 >