i've 2 servers with old PCI VGA cards, one using X86_64 kernel
version 2.6.23-rc5 and one with i386 kernel version 2.6.23-rc6,
both wired into the same CRT via a KVM switch.
No matter what text screen size i set on both these machines (using
resizecons) the shell line where i type in commands is past the
bottom of the screen, invisible.
Another box connected to the same KVM displays fine, and it runs
2.6.22-rc7.
i also have a box running kernel 2.6.23-rc5 where the console
display is fine: it uses a GeForce 8500 PCI-E vidcard driving a LCD
screen.
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 03:26 -0400, ben soo wrote:
> i've 2 servers with old PCI VGA cards, one using X86_64 kernel
> version 2.6.23-rc5 and one with i386 kernel version 2.6.23-rc6,
> both wired into the same CRT via a KVM switch.
Is this new? If yes, what's the version of the last working kernel?
>
> No matter what text screen size i set on both these machines (using
> resizecons) the shell line where i type in commands is past the
> bottom of the screen, invisible.
>
> Another box connected to the same KVM displays fine, and it runs
> 2.6.22-rc7.
>
> i also have a box running kernel 2.6.23-rc5 where the console
> display is fine: it uses a GeForce 8500 PCI-E vidcard driving a LCD
> screen.
Can you post dmesg and output of stty -a?
Tony
Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 03:26 -0400, ben soo wrote:
>> i've 2 servers with old PCI VGA cards, one using X86_64 kernel
>> version 2.6.23-rc5 and one with i386 kernel version 2.6.23-rc6,
>> both wired into the same CRT via a KVM switch.
>
> Is this new? If yes, what's the version of the last working kernel?
Hi Antonio; i'm very sorry about the delay in answering: been
pretty ill.
i had upgraded all four servers here to 2.6.23-rc6 and found that
only one had this console problem. It runs a very old S3 Virge
PCI vidcard.
Tonight i upgraded it to 2.6.23-rc7 and the console is fine again,
but, just to be complete i include the requested info:
> Can you post dmesg and output of stty -a?
stty -a
speed 38400 baud; rows 34; columns 80; line = 0;
intr = ^C; quit = ^\; erase = ^?; kill = ^U; eof = ^D; eol = <undef>;
eol2 = <undef>; start = ^Q; stop = ^S; susp = ^Z; rprnt = ^R;
werase = ^W;
lnext = ^V; flush = ^O; min = 1; time = 0;
-parenb -parodd cs8 hupcl -cstopb cread -clocal -crtscts
-ignbrk -brkint -ignpar -parmrk -inpck -istrip -inlcr -igncr icrnl
ixon ixoff
-iuclc -ixany -imaxbel
opost -olcuc -ocrnl onlcr -onocr -onlret -ofill -ofdel nl0 cr0 tab0
bs0 vt0 ff0
isig icanon -iexten echo echoe echok -echonl -noflsh -xcase -tostop
-echoprt
echoctl echoke
-------------------------------------------------------------------
dmesg
Linux version 2.6.23-rc6sophia (mason@Sophia) (gcc version 4.2.0)
#1 SMP Fri Sep 14 12:08:46 EDT 2007
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f400 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009f400 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000007fee0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000007fee0000 - 000000007fee3000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000007fee3000 - 000000007fef0000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000007fef0000 - 000000007ff00000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
1150MB HIGHMEM available.
896MB LOWMEM available.
found SMP MP-table at 000f3ef0
Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 524000) 0 entries of 256 used
Zone PFN ranges:
DMA 0 -> 4096
Normal 4096 -> 229376
HighMem 229376 -> 524000
Movable zone start PFN for each node
early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
0: 0 -> 524000
On node 0 totalpages: 524000
DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap
DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0
Normal zone: 1760 pages used for memmap
Normal zone: 223520 pages, LIFO batch:31
HighMem zone: 2301 pages used for memmap
HighMem zone: 292323 pages, LIFO batch:31
Movable zone: 0 pages used for memmap
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI: RSDP 000F7CF0, 0014 (r0 RD580 )
ACPI: RSDT 7FEE3040, 0038 (r1 RD580 AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD 0)
ACPI: FACP 7FEE30C0, 0074 (r1 RD580 AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD 0)
ACPI: DSDT 7FEE3180, 4C56 (r1 RD580 AWRDACPI 1000 MSFT 100000E)
ACPI: FACS 7FEE0000, 0040
ACPI: HPET 7FEE7F00, 0038 (r1 RD580 AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD 98)
ACPI: WDRT 7FEE7F80, 0047 (r1 RD580 AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD 0)
ACPI: MCFG 7FEE8040, 003C (r1 RD580 AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD 0)
ACPI: APIC 7FEE7E40, 0068 (r1 RD580 AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD 0)
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x4008
ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
Processor #0 15:3 APIC version 16
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x01] enabled)
Processor #1 15:3 APIC version 16
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1])
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] high edge lint[0x1])
ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 17, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 low level)
ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ9 used by override.
Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs
ACPI: HPET id: 0x10b9a201 base: 0xfed00000
Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
Allocating PCI resources starting at 80000000 (gap: 7ff00000:60100000)
Built 1 zonelists in Zone order. Total pages: 519907
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=2.6.23-rc6 ro root=302
mapped APIC to ffffb000 (fee00000)
mapped IOAPIC to ffffa000 (fec00000)
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes)
Detected 2970.093 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x34
console [tty0] enabled
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Memory: 2074112k/2096000k available (2355k kernel code, 20880k
reserved, 827k data, 184k init, 1178496k highmem)
virtual kernel memory layout:
fixmap : 0xfff9b000 - 0xfffff000 ( 400 kB)
pkmap : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000 (4096 kB)
vmalloc : 0xf8800000 - 0xff7fe000 ( 111 MB)
lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xf8000000 ( 896 MB)
.init : 0xc0422000 - 0xc0450000 ( 184 kB)
.data : 0xc034cdc0 - 0xc041bda4 ( 827 kB)
.text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc034cdc0 (2355 kB)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor
mode... Ok.
SLUB: Genslabs=22, HWalign=64, Order=0-1, MinObjects=4, CPUs=2, Nodes=1
hpet0: at MMIO 0xfed00000, IRQs 2, 8, 0
hpet0: 3 64-bit timers, 14318180 Hz
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 5946.27 BogoMIPS
(lpj=9906047)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
Capability LSM initialized
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 178bfbff e3d3fbff 00000000
00000000 00000001 00000000 00000003 00000000
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 1024K (64 bytes/line)
CPU 0(2) -> Core 0
CPU: After all inits, caps: 178bfbff e3d3fbff 00000000 00000410
00000001 00000000 00000003 00000000
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
Compat vDSO mapped to ffffe000.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
ACPI: Core revision 20070126
CPU0: AMD Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 165 stepping 02
SMP alternatives: switching to SMP code
Booting processor 1/1 eip 2000
Initializing CPU#1
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 5942.50 BogoMIPS
(lpj=9900003)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 178bfbff e3d3fbff 00000000
00000000 00000001 00000000 00000003 00000000
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 1024K (64 bytes/line)
CPU 1(2) -> Core 1
CPU: After all inits, caps: 178bfbff e3d3fbff 00000000 00000410
00000001 00000000 00000003 00000000
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#1.
CPU1: AMD Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 165 stepping 02
Total of 2 processors activated (11888.78 BogoMIPS).
ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
Brought up 2 CPUs
NET: Registered protocol family 16
ACPI: bus type pci registered
PCI: Using MMCONFIG
PCI: No mmconfig possible on device 00:18
Setting up standard PCI resources
ACPI: EC: Look up EC in DSDT
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
PCI quirk: region 4000-403f claimed by ali7101 ACPI
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.P2PB._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK1] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
*0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK2] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK3] (IRQs 1 *3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK4] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK5] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
*0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK6] (IRQs 1 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK7] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
*0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK8] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *9
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK9] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 *7 10 11 12 14 15)
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI init
ACPI: bus type pnp registered
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 13 devices
ACPI: ACPI bus type pnp unregistered
SCSI subsystem initialized
libata version 2.21 loaded.
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps,
post a report
ACPI: RTC can wake from S4
Time: hpet clocksource has been installed.
Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 1
Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 0
pnp: 00:0b: iomem range 0xe0000000-0xefffffff could not be reserved
pnp: 00:0c: iomem range 0xf0000-0xf3fff could not be reserved
pnp: 00:0c: iomem range 0xf4000-0xf7fff could not be reserved
pnp: 00:0c: iomem range 0xf8000-0xfbfff could not be reserved
pnp: 00:0c: iomem range 0xfc000-0xfffff could not be reserved
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1a.0
IO window: e000-efff
MEM window: d4000000-dbffffff
PREFETCH window: dfe00000-dfefffff
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1a.0 to 64
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1572864 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
TCP reno registered
Machine check exception polling timer started.
highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered (default)
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
PCI: MSI quirk detected. MSI deactivated.
Boot video device is 0000:01:10.0
ACPI: Invalid PBLK length [7]
ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (41 C)
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
hpet_resources: 0xfed00000 is busy
Linux agpgart interface v0.102
[drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
Hangcheck: starting hangcheck timer 0.9.0 (tick is 180 seconds,
margin is 60 seconds).
Hangcheck: Using get_cycles().
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing
disabled
serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
00:09: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.2LK-NAPI loaded
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:12.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
eth0: RTL8110s at 0xf8820000, 00:18:e7:08:3a:7f, XID 04000000 IRQ 16
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx
ALI15X3: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
ALI15X3: chipset revision 200
ALI15X3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xff00-0xff07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xff08-0xff0f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: Maxtor 6E040L0, ATA DISK drive
hda: selected mode 0x46
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-108, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdc: selected mode 0x44
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 80293248 sectors (41110 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63,
UDMA(133)
hda: cache flushes supported
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 >
hdc: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2000kB Cache, UDMA(66)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
ahci 0000:00:1f.1: version 2.3
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
ahci 0000:00:1f.1: AHCI 0001.0000 32 slots 4 ports 3 Gbps 0xf impl
SATA mode
ahci 0000:00:1f.1: flags: ncq sntf ilck pm led clo pmp pio slum part
scsi0 : ahci
scsi1 : ahci
scsi2 : ahci
scsi3 : ahci
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xf8822100 ctl 0x00000000 bmdma
0x00000000 irq 16
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xf8822180 ctl 0x00000000 bmdma
0x00000000 irq 16
ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xf8822200 ctl 0x00000000 bmdma
0x00000000 irq 16
ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xf8822280 ctl 0x00000000 bmdma
0x00000000 irq 16
ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
ata3.00: ATA-7: WDC WD3200AAKS-00SBA0, 12.01B01, max UDMA/133
ata3.00: 625142448 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32)
ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133
ata4: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA WDC WD3200AAKS-0 12.0 PQ:
0 ANSI: 5
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 625142448 512-byte hardware sectors (320073 MB)
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled,
doesn't support DPO or FUA
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 625142448 512-byte hardware sectors (320073 MB)
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled,
doesn't support DPO or FUA
sda: sda1 sda2
sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
PNP: PS/2 appears to have AUX port disabled, if this is incorrect
please boot with i8042.nopnp
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
EDAC MC: Ver: 2.1.0 Sep 14 2007
TCP cubic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Starting balanced_irq
Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 184k freed
Adding 1048784k swap on /dev/hda8. Priority:-1 extents:1
across:1048784k
Adding 987956k swap on /dev/sda1. Priority:-2 extents:1 across:987956k
EXT3 FS on hda2, internal journal
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hda6, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on sda2, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hda7, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hda5, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 02:26 -0400, ben soo wrote:
> Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 03:26 -0400, ben soo wrote:
> >> i've 2 servers with old PCI VGA cards, one using X86_64 kernel
> >> version 2.6.23-rc5 and one with i386 kernel version 2.6.23-rc6,
> >> both wired into the same CRT via a KVM switch.
> >
> > Is this new? If yes, what's the version of the last working kernel?
>
> Hi Antonio; i'm very sorry about the delay in answering: been
> pretty ill.
>
That's okay.
> i had upgraded all four servers here to 2.6.23-rc6 and found that
> only one had this console problem. It runs a very old S3 Virge
> PCI vidcard.
>
> Tonight i upgraded it to 2.6.23-rc7 and the console is fine again,
> but, just to be complete i include the requested info:
>
> > Can you post dmesg and output of stty -a?
>
> stty -a
>
> speed 38400 baud; rows 34; columns 80; line = 0;
Yes, you have an 80x34 screen (normal VGA is 80x25). I have received
several reports about this problem (if the kernel boots with an initial
screen which is not 80x25 and the init scripts attempts to set an 8x16
font, the user gets a display that does not fit the screen). Your
problem though is probably unrelated.
Tony