Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Fw: Re: 2.6.11-rc2-mm2 | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Tue, 01 Feb 2005 10:18:33 +1100 |
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On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 06:21 -0500, Joseph Fannin wrote:
> I'm getting a blank screen with radeonfb on two boxes here as > well. One is a beige g3, the other is i386; both have PCI Radeon 7000s > with radeonfb non-modular. > > On the PC I could see the earliest kernel messages in VGA text > mode before radeonfb took over and the screen went blank -- no > penguin, and the logo is enabled. Booting with radeonfb:off seemed to > work except for the module problem in -rc2-mm2: > > On the ppc box I tried both -rc2-mm1 and -rc2-mm2. Both hung and > then rebooted after 3 minutes, so it seems to be panicing somewhere. > I backed the massive-radeonfb patch out of -mm2 and radeonfb worked, > so I got as far as the module thing again. > > So yeah, it's possible that there's something in -mm1 that panics > my ppc, and radeonfb is just making a blank screen, but it seems more > likely that radeonfb is panicing. I tried to get netconsole working > on both machines, but it didn't work out for unrelated reasons. > > Hopefully I'll have more time to poke at this tomorrow; maybe this > is helpful somehow.
Hrm... indeed, there seem to be a problem, though I can't tell for sure what's up now, it just works on all the configs I had a chance to test on. Can you try to boot your G3 with serial console so you can see the panic message if any ?
Ben.
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