Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752609AbXBSAhw (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Feb 2007 19:37:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752610AbXBSAhw (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Feb 2007 19:37:52 -0500 Received: from shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net ([24.71.223.10]:10064 "EHLO pd3mo1so.prod.shaw.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752609AbXBSAhv (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Feb 2007 19:37:51 -0500 Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 16:37:48 -0800 (PST) From: Zwane Mwaikambo Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't probe for DDC on VBE1.2 In-reply-to: <200702182253.10423.ak@suse.de> To: Andi Kleen Cc: Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel , Tobias Hain , "H. Peter Anvin" Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII References: <20070216102206.343e0b0d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <200702182253.10423.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1613 Lines: 41 On Sun, 18 Feb 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Saturday 17 February 2007 09:35, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 06:39:45 -0800 (PST) Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > > > > > > > On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > > > > > It's not an X problem - the screen is black immediately upon loading the > > > > > kernel. > > > > > > > > > > But I guess you knew that and you're just after display info: > > > > > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/Xorg.0.log.txt > > > > > > > > Thanks, the X log told me your VBE version. I tried to reproduce it on my > > > > thinkpad which seems to have a very similar video setup to no avail, Could > > > > you test the following on the VAIO? If this isn't the case, i suspect i'm > > > > corrupting your modelist. > > > > > > It's still all black. > > > > Ok it looks like i was corrupting the modelist. The following should take > > care of your VAIO, but i haven't tested the failure case as Tobias is away > > this weekend. > > I merged this version of the patch now. Still needs some x86-64 testing > I guess (any volunteers?), although I don't expect much trouble > because the early boot code is very similar. I tested the x86_64 VBE3 case (similar to Andrew's VAIO), so we just need a VBE1.2 on x86_64 test. Thanks, Zwane - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/