I have a display card + display combination that has recently had much problems
during system boot. Some system versions boot just fine to very large text mode,
others create entirely black display.
Is there any way to forbid the DRM from doing "maximize the text display area"
operation at all during the boot? I do want the DRM/KMS to happen latter, but
NOT during system boot!
Best regards, Matti Aarnio
>From black case:
kernel: Linux version 2.6.31.1-48.fc12.x86_64 ([email protected]) (gcc version 4.4.1 20090923 (Red Hat 4.4.1-16) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Fri Sep 25 16:57:40 EDT 2009
....
kernel: [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
kernel: [drm] radeon defaulting to kernel modesetting.
rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="4.4.1" x-pid="1396" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com"] (re)start
kernel: [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled.
kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC3] enabled at IRQ 18
kernel: radeon 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> Link[APC3] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
kernel: [drm] radeon: Initializing kernel modesetting.
kernel: [drm] register mmio base: 0xC1000000
kernel: [drm] register mmio size: 65536
kernel: ATOM BIOS: 11X
kernel: [drm] Clocks initialized !
kernel: [drm] Detected VRAM RAM=512M, BAR=256M
kernel: [drm] RAM width 128bits DDR
kernel: [TTM] Zone kernel: Available graphics memory: 1997734 kiB.
kernel: [drm] radeon: 512M of VRAM memory ready
kernel: [drm] radeon: 512M of GTT memory ready.
kernel: [drm] Loading RV630 CP Microcode
kernel: platform radeon_cp.0: firmware: requesting radeon/RV630_pfp.bin
kernel: platform radeon_cp.0: firmware: requesting radeon/RV630_me.bin
kernel: [drm] GART: num cpu pages 131072, num gpu pages 131072
kernel: [drm] ring test succeeded in 0 usecs
kernel: usb 1-7: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6
kernel: [drm] radeon: ib pool ready.
kernel: [drm] ib test succeeded in 0 usecs
kernel: [drm] radeon: kernel modesetting successfully initialized.
kernel: [drm] Radeon Display Connectors
kernel: [drm] Connector 0:
kernel: [drm] DVI-I
kernel: [drm] DDC: 0x7e50 0x7e50 0x7e54 0x7e54 0x7e58 0x7e58 0x7e5c 0x7e5c
kernel: [drm] Encoders:
kernel: [drm] DFP1: INTERNAL_KLDSCP_TMDS1
kernel: [drm] CRT2: INTERNAL_KLDSCP_DAC2
kernel: [drm] Connector 1:
kernel: [drm] DIN
kernel: [drm] Encoders:
kernel: [drm] TV1: INTERNAL_KLDSCP_DAC2
kernel: [drm] Connector 2:
kernel: [drm] DVI-I
kernel: [drm] DDC: 0x7e40 0x7e40 0x7e44 0x7e44 0x7e48 0x7e48 0x7e4c 0x7e4c
kernel: [drm] Encoders:
kernel: [drm] CRT1: INTERNAL_KLDSCP_DAC1
kernel: [drm] DFP2: INTERNAL_LVTM1
kernel: usb 1-7: New USB device found, idVendor=05e3, idProduct=0605
kernel: usb 1-7: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=1, SerialNumber=0
kernel: usb 1-7: Product: USB2.0 Hub
kernel: usb 1-7: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
kernel: hub 1-7:1.0: USB hub found
kernel: hub 1-7:1.0: 4 ports detected
kernel: [drm] fb mappable at 0xB0141000
kernel: [drm] vram apper at 0xB0000000
kernel: [drm] size 9216000
kernel: [drm] fb depth is 24
kernel: [drm] pitch is 7680
kernel: executing set pll
kernel: executing set crtc timing
kernel: [drm] TMDS-15: set mode 1920x1200 27
kernel: Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 240x75
kernel: fb0: radeondrmfb frame buffer device
kernel: registered panic notifier
kernel: [drm] Initialized radeon 2.0.0 20080528 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 0
kernel: work_for_cpu used greatest stack depth: 2672 bytes left
kernel: dracut: Starting plymouth daemon
.....
And from case showing up the text console:
kernel: Linux version 2.6.31-33.fc12.x86_64 ([email protected]) (gcc version 4.4.1 20090916 (Red Hat 4.4.1-14) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Thu Sep 17 15:40:43 EDT 2009
.....
kernel: [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
kernel: [drm] radeon defaulting to kernel modesetting.
kernel: [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled.
kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC3] enabled at IRQ 18
kernel: radeon 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> Link[APC3] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
kernel: [drm] radeon: Initializing kernel modesetting.
kernel: [drm] register mmio base: 0xC1000000
kernel: [drm] register mmio size: 65536
kernel: ATOM BIOS: 11X
kernel: [drm] Clocks initialized !
kernel: [TTM] Zone kernel: Available graphics memory: 1997734 kiB.
kernel: [drm] radeon: 512M of VRAM memory ready
kernel: [drm] radeon: 512M of GTT memory ready.
kernel: [drm] Loading RV630 CP Microcode
kernel: platform radeon_cp.0: firmware: requesting radeon/RV630_pfp.bin
kernel: platform radeon_cp.0: firmware: requesting radeon/RV630_me.bin
kernel: [drm] GART: num cpu pages 131072, num gpu pages 131072
kernel: usb 1-7: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6
kernel: [drm] ring test succeeded in 0 usecs
kernel: [drm] radeon: ib pool ready.
kernel: [drm] ib test succeeded in 0 usecs
kernel: [drm] Radeon Display Connectors
kernel: [drm] Connector 0:
kernel: [drm] DVI-I
kernel: [drm] DDC: 0x7e50 0x7e50 0x7e54 0x7e54 0x7e58 0x7e58 0x7e5c 0x7e5c
kernel: [drm] Encoders:
kernel: [drm] DFP1: INTERNAL_KLDSCP_TMDS1
kernel: [drm] CRT2: INTERNAL_KLDSCP_DAC2
kernel: [drm] Connector 1:
kernel: [drm] DVI-I
kernel: [drm] DDC: 0x7e40 0x7e40 0x7e44 0x7e44 0x7e48 0x7e48 0x7e4c 0x7e4c
kernel: [drm] Encoders:
kernel: [drm] CRT1: INTERNAL_KLDSCP_DAC1
kernel: [drm] DFP2: INTERNAL_LVTM1
kernel: usb 1-7: New USB device found, idVendor=05e3, idProduct=0605
kernel: usb 1-7: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=1, SerialNumber=0
kernel: usb 1-7: Product: USB2.0 Hub
kernel: usb 1-7: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
kernel: hub 1-7:1.0: USB hub found
kernel: hub 1-7:1.0: 4 ports detected
kernel: [drm] fb mappable at 0xB0141000
kernel: [drm] vram apper at 0xB0000000
kernel: [drm] size 9216000
kernel: [drm] fb depth is 24
kernel: [drm] pitch is 7680
kernel: executing set pll
kernel: executing set crtc timing
kernel: [drm] TMDS-10: set mode 1920x1200 22
kernel: Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 240x75
kernel: fb0: radeondrmfb frame buffer device
kernel: registered panic notifier
kernel: [drm] radeon: kernel modesetting successfully initialized.
kernel: [drm] Initialized radeon 2.0.0 20080528 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 0
kernel: work_for_cpu used greatest stack depth: 2656 bytes left
kernel: dracut: Starting plymouth daemon
On Sat, Oct 03, 2009 at 03:19:58PM +0300, Matti Aarnio wrote:
> I have a display card + display combination that has recently had much problems
> during system boot. Some system versions boot just fine to very large text mode,
> others create entirely black display.
>
> Is there any way to forbid the DRM from doing "maximize the text display area"
> operation at all during the boot? I do want the DRM/KMS to happen latter, but
> NOT during system boot!
I will emphasize some more: I want to have all of that drm initialization to happen,
EXCEPT do not want to allow it to make display mode change during the boot!
Call me a dinosaur, or whatever, but getting the system to boot to text console
used to be "guaranteed thing", except that now it is not :-( I do not want windows,
I want Linux. When I then see that system did boot correctly, I will MANUALLY
start X.
I might even permit the init-script to start the xdm or other graphical login manager,
but only after the bootup has been completed all the way to userspace!
I tried vga=ask on boot line, but of course it did not have effect on drm.
> Best regards, Matti Aarnio
>
> From failing case:
>
> kernel: Linux version 2.6.31.1-48.fc12.x86_64 ([email protected]) (gcc version 4.4.1 20090923 (Red Hat 4.4.1-16) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Fri Sep 25 16:57:40 EDT 2009
> ....
> kernel: [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
> kernel: [drm] radeon defaulting to kernel modesetting.
> rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="4.4.1" x-pid="1396" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com"] (re)start
> kernel: [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled.
> kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC3] enabled at IRQ 18
> kernel: radeon 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> Link[APC3] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
> kernel: [drm] radeon: Initializing kernel modesetting.
> kernel: [drm] register mmio base: 0xC1000000
> kernel: [drm] register mmio size: 65536
> kernel: ATOM BIOS: 11X
> kernel: [drm] Clocks initialized !
> kernel: [drm] Detected VRAM RAM=512M, BAR=256M
> kernel: [drm] RAM width 128bits DDR
> kernel: [TTM] Zone kernel: Available graphics memory: 1997734 kiB.
> kernel: [drm] radeon: 512M of VRAM memory ready
> kernel: [drm] radeon: 512M of GTT memory ready.
> kernel: [drm] Loading RV630 CP Microcode
> kernel: platform radeon_cp.0: firmware: requesting radeon/RV630_pfp.bin
> kernel: platform radeon_cp.0: firmware: requesting radeon/RV630_me.bin
> kernel: [drm] GART: num cpu pages 131072, num gpu pages 131072
> kernel: [drm] ring test succeeded in 0 usecs
> kernel: usb 1-7: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6
> kernel: [drm] radeon: ib pool ready.
> kernel: [drm] ib test succeeded in 0 usecs
> kernel: [drm] radeon: kernel modesetting successfully initialized.
> kernel: [drm] Radeon Display Connectors
> kernel: [drm] Connector 0:
> kernel: [drm] DVI-I
> kernel: [drm] DDC: 0x7e50 0x7e50 0x7e54 0x7e54 0x7e58 0x7e58 0x7e5c 0x7e5c
> kernel: [drm] Encoders:
> kernel: [drm] DFP1: INTERNAL_KLDSCP_TMDS1
> kernel: [drm] CRT2: INTERNAL_KLDSCP_DAC2
> kernel: [drm] Connector 1:
> kernel: [drm] DIN
> kernel: [drm] Encoders:
> kernel: [drm] TV1: INTERNAL_KLDSCP_DAC2
> kernel: [drm] Connector 2:
> kernel: [drm] DVI-I
> kernel: [drm] DDC: 0x7e40 0x7e40 0x7e44 0x7e44 0x7e48 0x7e48 0x7e4c 0x7e4c
> kernel: [drm] Encoders:
> kernel: [drm] CRT1: INTERNAL_KLDSCP_DAC1
> kernel: [drm] DFP2: INTERNAL_LVTM1
> kernel: usb 1-7: New USB device found, idVendor=05e3, idProduct=0605
> kernel: usb 1-7: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=1, SerialNumber=0
> kernel: usb 1-7: Product: USB2.0 Hub
> kernel: usb 1-7: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> kernel: hub 1-7:1.0: USB hub found
> kernel: hub 1-7:1.0: 4 ports detected
> kernel: [drm] fb mappable at 0xB0141000
> kernel: [drm] vram apper at 0xB0000000
> kernel: [drm] size 9216000
> kernel: [drm] fb depth is 24
> kernel: [drm] pitch is 7680
> kernel: executing set pll
> kernel: executing set crtc timing
> kernel: [drm] TMDS-15: set mode 1920x1200 27
> kernel: Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 240x75
> kernel: fb0: radeondrmfb frame buffer device
> kernel: registered panic notifier
> kernel: [drm] Initialized radeon 2.0.0 20080528 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 0
> kernel: work_for_cpu used greatest stack depth: 2672 bytes left
> kernel: dracut: Starting plymouth daemon
> .....
>
>
> And from case showing up the text console:
>
> kernel: Linux version 2.6.31-33.fc12.x86_64 ([email protected]) (gcc version 4.4.1 20090916 (Red Hat 4.4.1-14) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Thu Sep 17 15:40:43 EDT 2009
> .....
> kernel: [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
> kernel: [drm] radeon defaulting to kernel modesetting.
> kernel: [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled.
> kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC3] enabled at IRQ 18
> kernel: radeon 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> Link[APC3] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
> kernel: [drm] radeon: Initializing kernel modesetting.
> kernel: [drm] register mmio base: 0xC1000000
> kernel: [drm] register mmio size: 65536
> kernel: ATOM BIOS: 11X
> kernel: [drm] Clocks initialized !
> kernel: [TTM] Zone kernel: Available graphics memory: 1997734 kiB.
> kernel: [drm] radeon: 512M of VRAM memory ready
> kernel: [drm] radeon: 512M of GTT memory ready.
> kernel: [drm] Loading RV630 CP Microcode
> kernel: platform radeon_cp.0: firmware: requesting radeon/RV630_pfp.bin
> kernel: platform radeon_cp.0: firmware: requesting radeon/RV630_me.bin
> kernel: [drm] GART: num cpu pages 131072, num gpu pages 131072
> kernel: usb 1-7: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6
> kernel: [drm] ring test succeeded in 0 usecs
> kernel: [drm] radeon: ib pool ready.
> kernel: [drm] ib test succeeded in 0 usecs
> kernel: [drm] Radeon Display Connectors
> kernel: [drm] Connector 0:
> kernel: [drm] DVI-I
> kernel: [drm] DDC: 0x7e50 0x7e50 0x7e54 0x7e54 0x7e58 0x7e58 0x7e5c 0x7e5c
> kernel: [drm] Encoders:
> kernel: [drm] DFP1: INTERNAL_KLDSCP_TMDS1
> kernel: [drm] CRT2: INTERNAL_KLDSCP_DAC2
> kernel: [drm] Connector 1:
> kernel: [drm] DVI-I
> kernel: [drm] DDC: 0x7e40 0x7e40 0x7e44 0x7e44 0x7e48 0x7e48 0x7e4c 0x7e4c
> kernel: [drm] Encoders:
> kernel: [drm] CRT1: INTERNAL_KLDSCP_DAC1
> kernel: [drm] DFP2: INTERNAL_LVTM1
> kernel: usb 1-7: New USB device found, idVendor=05e3, idProduct=0605
> kernel: usb 1-7: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=1, SerialNumber=0
> kernel: usb 1-7: Product: USB2.0 Hub
> kernel: usb 1-7: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> kernel: hub 1-7:1.0: USB hub found
> kernel: hub 1-7:1.0: 4 ports detected
> kernel: [drm] fb mappable at 0xB0141000
> kernel: [drm] vram apper at 0xB0000000
> kernel: [drm] size 9216000
> kernel: [drm] fb depth is 24
> kernel: [drm] pitch is 7680
> kernel: executing set pll
> kernel: executing set crtc timing
> kernel: [drm] TMDS-10: set mode 1920x1200 22
> kernel: Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 240x75
> kernel: fb0: radeondrmfb frame buffer device
> kernel: registered panic notifier
> kernel: [drm] radeon: kernel modesetting successfully initialized.
> kernel: [drm] Initialized radeon 2.0.0 20080528 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 0
> kernel: work_for_cpu used greatest stack depth: 2656 bytes left
> kernel: dracut: Starting plymouth daemon
>
>
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On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 8:19 AM, Matti Aarnio <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a display card + display combination that has recently had much problems
> during system boot. ?Some system versions boot just fine to very large text mode,
> others create entirely black display.
>
> Is there any way to forbid the DRM from doing "maximize the text display area"
> operation at all during the boot? ?I do want the DRM/KMS to happen latter, but
> NOT during system boot!
>
Boot with nomodeset or radeon.modeset=0 on the kernel command line.
That will disable kernel modesetting at boot. You can then manually
load the modules with or without modesetting once the system is
booted. drm-next also recently got support for forcing the console
mode.
Alex
On Sat, Oct 03, 2009 at 10:38:12AM -0400, Alex Deucher wrote:
> From: Alex Deucher <[email protected]>
>
> On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 8:19 AM, Matti Aarnio <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I have a display card + display combination that has recently had much problems
> > during system boot. ?Some system versions boot just fine to very large text mode,
> > others create entirely black display.
> >
> > Is there any way to forbid the DRM from doing "maximize the text display area"
> > operation at all during the boot? ?I do want the DRM/KMS to happen latter, but
> > NOT during system boot!
>
> Boot with nomodeset or radeon.modeset=0 on the kernel command line.
> That will disable kernel modesetting at boot. You can then manually
> load the modules with or without modesetting once the system is
> booted. drm-next also recently got support for forcing the console
> mode.
Thanks, that saved the day. The kernel boots to text console just fine, and when
I am happy, log in as my non-privileged self and start X, firmware loading and mode
settings are working correctly.
Of course I would be happier without these boot commandline extras, so
current Fedora 12 (Beta) kernel has some bad radeon drm/dri/kms bits on it.
Couple of weeks ago things did work just fine with modesetting happening
early in the boot. Four weeks ago things failed, and six weeks ago this
modesetting thing did not exist...
Current kernel is:
2.6.31.1-56.fc12.x86_64 #1 SMP
> Alex
/Matti Aarnio