Re: No console on Riva TNT since 2.6.26-0.rc4

3 messages, 3 authors, 2008-07-19 · open the first message on its own page

Re: No console on Riva TNT since 2.6.26-0.rc4

From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: 2008-07-10 02:46:54

On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:04:56 +0000 kelk1@comcast.net (Quel Qun) wrote:
Hi,

The system boots fine with 2.6.26-0.rc3.1mnb (Mandriva Cooker), but since rc4, I see a few squares of color, then a black screen and the console never comes back. This is independent of the resolution chosen when using vga=ask. The machine does boot and I can start X if I log in blindly. Only the F1 to F6 consoles are gone.

Bug originally reported and ignored on Cooker: https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=41302

My card is an old STB NVidia Riva TNT, monitor is a flat panel Dell 2007FP, system is a Dell Dimension XPS T600 (82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 with PIII 600).

I cannot see anything different in /var/log/messages between rc3 and rc4 (vga=837)

vesafb: framebuffer at 0xfc000000, mapped to 0xd8880000, using 7500k, total
16320k
vesafb: mode is 1600x1200x8, linelength=1600, pages=6
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:02d2
vesafb: pmi: set display start = c00c030b, set palette = c00c0381
vesafb: pmi: ports = 3b4 3b5 3ba 3c0 3c1 3c4 3c5 3c6 3c7 3c8 3c9 3cc 3ce 3cf
3d0 3d1 3d2 3d3 3d4 3d5 3da
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: Pseudocolor: size=8:8:8:8, shift=0:0:0:0
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 200x75
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device

This is still true with a vanilla 2.6.26-rc8.

$ grep FB_RIVA /boot/config
CONFIG_FB_RIVA=m
# CONFIG_FB_RIVA_I2C is not set
# CONFIG_FB_RIVA_DEBUG is not set
CONFIG_FB_RIVA_BACKLIGHT=y
Let's cc the fbdev list.

Is this a regression?  Was 2.6.25 OK?

Thanks.

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Re: No console on Riva TNT since 2.6.26-0.rc4

From: Alexey Dobriyan <hidden>
Date: 2008-07-10 02:54:52

On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 07:41:08PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:04:56 +0000 kelk1@comcast.net (Quel Qun) wrote:
quoted
Hi,

The system boots fine with 2.6.26-0.rc3.1mnb (Mandriva Cooker), but since rc4, I see a few squares of color, then a black screen and the console never comes back. This is independent of the resolution chosen when using vga=ask. The machine does boot and I can start X if I log in blindly. Only the F1 to F6 consoles are gone.

Bug originally reported and ignored on Cooker: https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=41302

My card is an old STB NVidia Riva TNT, monitor is a flat panel Dell 2007FP, system is a Dell Dimension XPS T600 (82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 with PIII 600).

I cannot see anything different in /var/log/messages between rc3 and rc4 (vga=837)

vesafb: framebuffer at 0xfc000000, mapped to 0xd8880000, using 7500k, total
16320k
vesafb: mode is 1600x1200x8, linelength=1600, pages=6
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:02d2
vesafb: pmi: set display start = c00c030b, set palette = c00c0381
vesafb: pmi: ports = 3b4 3b5 3ba 3c0 3c1 3c4 3c5 3c6 3c7 3c8 3c9 3cc 3ce 3cf
3d0 3d1 3d2 3d3 3d4 3d5 3da
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: Pseudocolor: size=8:8:8:8, shift=0:0:0:0
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 200x75
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device

This is still true with a vanilla 2.6.26-rc8.

$ grep FB_RIVA /boot/config
CONFIG_FB_RIVA=m
# CONFIG_FB_RIVA_I2C is not set
# CONFIG_FB_RIVA_DEBUG is not set
CONFIG_FB_RIVA_BACKLIGHT=y
Let's cc the fbdev list.

Is this a regression?  Was 2.6.25 OK?
2.6.26-rc3 was OK. -rc4 wasn't.

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] No console on Riva TNT since 2.6.26-0.rc4

From: Krzysztof Helt <hidden>
Date: 2008-07-19 16:02:27

On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 06:51:49 +0400
Alexey Dobriyan [off-list ref] wrote:
On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 07:41:08PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
quoted
On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:04:56 +0000 kelk1@comcast.net (Quel Qun) wrote:
quoted
Hi,

The system boots fine with 2.6.26-0.rc3.1mnb (Mandriva Cooker), but since rc4, I see a few squares of color, then a black screen and the console never comes back. This is independent of the resolution chosen when using vga=ask. The machine does boot and I can start X if I log in blindly. Only the F1 to F6 consoles are gone.
Please try the patch below if it helps:
--- linux-2.6.26/drivers/video/vesafb.c	2008-07-13 23:51:29.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-mm/drivers/video/vesafb.c	2008-07-19 17:56:51.774318414 +0200
@@ -247,7 +247,8 @@ static int __init vesafb_probe(struct pl
 	/*   size_total -- all video memory we have. Used for mtrr
 	 *                 entries, ressource allocation and bounds
 	 *                 checking. */
-	size_total = screen_info.lfb_size * 65536;
+	size_total = screen_info.lfb_linelength * screen_info.lfb_height *
+		     screen_info.pages;
 	if (vram_total)
 		size_total = vram_total * 1024 * 1024;
 	if (size_total < size_vmode)
Regards,
Krzysztof

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