From: "Cédric Godin" <cedric@belbone.be>
To: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Cc: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Xorg crash at first start
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:48:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49391512.4000604@belbone.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21d7e9970812042027w13271ceas91ecab87aa60562e@mail.gmail.com>
Dave Airlie wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 12:26 AM, Cédric Godin <cedric@belbone.be> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> With the v2.6.28-rc7-105-gfeaf384 kernel, when booting my compaq with
>> attached config, the screen switches in graphical mode but then switches
>> back in textual mode with an 'irq10 nobody cared' error in dmesg (attached).
>>
>> If I restart kdm by hand, all is ok (i have my kdm) but the error yet
>> appears in dmesg (at each X start in fact).
>>
>> I bisected the problem (git bisect log attached) and found the following
>> commit as "culprit" :
>>
>> commit 52440211dcdc52c0b757f8b34d122e11b12cdd50
>> Author: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
>> Date: Tue Nov 18 09:30:25 2008 -0800
>>
>> drm: move drm vblank initialization/cleanup to driver load/unload
>>
>> drm vblank initialization keeps track of the changes in driver-supplied
>> frame counts across vt switch and mode setting, but only if you let
>> it by
>> not tearing down the drm vblank structure.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
>>
>> Reverting it brings back my X screen at first start.
>>
>
> Just for testing, can you try without using vesafb....
>
> so remove the vga= line from the commandline or build the kernel
> without vesafb support.
>
I can confirm the problem without vesafb
> Dave.
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Cedric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-05 11:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-04 14:26 Xorg crash at first start Cédric Godin
2008-12-04 14:32 ` Cédric Godin
2008-12-05 4:27 ` Dave Airlie
2008-12-05 11:48 ` Cédric Godin [this message]
2008-12-08 4:29 ` Dave Airlie
2008-12-08 10:23 ` Cédric Godin
2008-12-13 23:14 ` Dave Airlie
2008-12-15 11:14 ` Cédric Godin
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