Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 5 Nov 2004 11:06:49 -0500 (EST) | From | John McGowan <> | Subject | Re: Kernel 2.6.9: i810 video |
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On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Dave Airlie wrote:
> > > > By the way, the X server runs. There is no problem with that. > > > > If I start it (say, with ICE as a window manager starting up an xterm) > > *immediately after boot* I get a clean, black screen. It should be dark > > green. I get the frame for the xterm. No xterm. I can right click to get > > the menu to display on the screen but it gets locked there. I can right > > click again to get a working menu and choose to logout. > > > > If I do something befor starting it, the screen is filled with junk. > > Something is writing to the video ram. If I close it and restar it, > > different junk. > > > > It seems that the initialization of the i810 is leaving its video ram > > free to be grabbed and used. > > Can you throw your .config this way as well, I've just built 2.6.9 > with i810 drm and no i810 framebuffer (CONFIG_DRM_I810 and > !CONFIG_FB_I810) and played tuxracer just fine for a few minutes under > a gnome session on a Fedora core 1 box with a prerelease of Xorg > 6.8... (my i810 test machine doesn't get taken out all that often...) > > I did just modprobe the i810 framebuffer module I also built and try > to start X and X wouldn't start with a unable to bind system texture > memory,.... so trying building a kernel without i810 framebuffer > switched on a see what happens..
I had compiled a kernel without frame buffer (no frame buffer support at all). Starting X gave the same screen (if I start X after doing something, it come up with junk on it - if I start X immediately after booting, it comes up black (should be dark green) and is unusable).
Let me try the simplest kernel configuration I can.
Regards from:
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