Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 14 Dec 2008 09:14:23 +1000 | From | "Dave Airlie" <> | Subject | Re: Xorg crash at first start |
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On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 8:23 PM, Cédric Godin <cedric@belbone.be> wrote: > Dave Airlie wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 9:48 PM, Cédric Godin <cedric@belbone.be> wrote: >> >>> 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 >>> >> >> Can you boot to a runlevel with no X running >> do >> modprobe drm debug=1 >> or if drm is loaded >> echo 1 > /sys/module/drm/parameters/debug >> and then start X >> >> and attach the dmesg here. >> >> I've some ideas but no concrete reason for what might be going wrong. >> >> Dave. >> > > First sorry for late answer. > Here is the dmesg asked in attach (modprobe + startx). > Hope it helps. >
Can you check out latest Linus git and retry this.
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