Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932647AbZD1Qxx (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:53:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756575AbZD1Qxn (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:53:43 -0400 Received: from outbound-mail-36.bluehost.com ([69.89.20.190]:42744 "HELO outbound-mail-36.bluehost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753854AbZD1Qxn (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:53:43 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=virtuousgeek.org; h=Received:Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References:X-Mailer:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-Identified-User; b=o4LmnyPLeuwAdcWxN8ykeirq9lI0WAnESrNm+cwa6YN+v/sBdEL1T+3YUSrXVhx1f06PUfzD2MYhB1B5vPA/SMvhyD/IktKEUcURG/++vQjGFf6TagL+lZ46ppU3RStn; Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:53:38 -0700 From: Jesse Barnes To: Alex Bennee Cc: Florian Mickler , xorg@freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.30-rc2 + xorg-intel-2.7.0 + DRM_I915_KMS = corruption Message-ID: <20090428095338.3e7b2062@hobbes> In-Reply-To: References: <20090427234947.394f774f@schatten> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.1 (GTK+ 2.16.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Identified-User: {10642:box514.bluehost.com:virtuous:virtuousgeek.org} {sentby:smtp auth 75.111.28.251 authed with jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org} Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1566 Lines: 37 On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 06:37:10 +0100 Alex Bennee wrote: > 2009/4/27 Florian Mickler : > > On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 07:27:35 +0100 > > Alex Bennee wrote: > > > >> Heading the warnings in the menuconfig I did try and ensure I have > >> all the up to date parts of user-space. With KMS enabled GDM > >> starts up but then corrupts the display with vertical lines. > >> Disabling the kernel config and everything starts up fine, UXA > >> acceleration seems OK and the speed of compiz is finally back up > >> to ~60fps thanks to the A17 fix. > >> > >> Am I missing another bit of user space for KMS to work properly? > > Apparently I was missing a key bit and had to enable fbdev from the > command line: > > kernel /kernel-2.6-drm root=/dev/sda2 > video=intelfb:mode=1440x900-32@75,accel,hwcursor > > However I still saw the same corruption kick in when GDM started. I > couldn't switch mode either which kinda defeated the point. The above seems to indicate that you have some FB drivers built into your kernel; that will likely fail in weird ways. Try disabling all the FB drivers, but keep CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE enabled. Then when you load the i915 driver you should get a nice console. -- Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- 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/