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SubjectRe: 3.5.x boot hang after conflicting fb hw usage <driver> vs VESA VGA - removing generic driver
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On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 8:28 AM, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> wrote:
>> On 08/17/2012 03:25 PM, Justin M. Forbes wrote:
>>
>>> for <driver>, we have verified cases on inteldrmfb, radeondrmfb, and
>>> cirrusdrmfb.
>>>
>>> This is the last message displayed before the system hangs. This seems
>>> to be hitting a large number of users in Fedora, though certainly not
>>> everyone. This started happening with the 3.5 updates, and is still an
>>> issue. It appears to be a race condition, because various things have
>>> allowed boot to continue for some users, though there is no clear work
>>> around. Has anyone else run across this? Any ideas. For more
>>> background we have the following bugs:
>>>
>>> inteldrmfb:
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=843826
>>>
>>> radeondrmfb:
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=845745
>>>
>>> cirrusdrmfb <kvm>:
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=843860
>>>
>>> It should be noted that the conflicting fb hw usage message is not new,
>>> it has been around for a while, but this is the last message seen before
>>> the hang.
>>
>>
>> Hi, (adding dri-devel mailing list)
>>
>>
>> I started seeing this problem on 3.5-rc6.
>>
>> AFAICT, the system is not actually hung, it's just that no output
>> is showing up on the real (physical) output device (display) -- it's
>> going somewhere else (or to the bit bucket).
>>
>
> Can we bisect this at all?
>
> I worry the intel one will bisect to where we moved the conflict
> resolution earlier, but I'd like to see if applying that patch earlier
> causes the issue, since radeon has it.
>
> I haven't reproduced this on any hw I own, I also can't get it under qemu.

I'm also wondering whether this grub2 related in some way, grub2 is
starting to mess with the graphics adapter pointlessly.

Dave.


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