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Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 14:29:20 +1000
From: "Dave Airlie" <airlied@gmail.com>
To: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?C=E9dric_Godin?=" <cedric@belbone.be>
Subject: Re: Xorg crash at first start
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On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 9:48 PM, Cédric Godin <cedric@belbone.be> wrote:
> Dave Airlie wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 12:26 AM, Cédric Godin <cedric@belbone.be> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> With the v2.6.28-rc7-105-gfeaf384 kernel, when booting my compaq with
>>> attached config, the screen switches in graphical mode but then switches
>>> back in textual mode with an 'irq10 nobody cared' error in dmesg (attached).
>>>
>>> If I restart kdm by hand, all is ok (i have my kdm) but the error yet
>>> appears in dmesg (at each X start in fact).
>>>
>>> I bisected the problem (git bisect log attached) and found the following
>>> commit as "culprit" :
>>>
>>> commit 52440211dcdc52c0b757f8b34d122e11b12cdd50
>>> Author: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
>>> Date:   Tue Nov 18 09:30:25 2008 -0800
>>>
>>>    drm: move drm vblank initialization/cleanup to driver load/unload
>>>
>>>    drm vblank initialization keeps track of the changes in driver-supplied
>>>    frame counts across vt switch and mode setting, but only if you let
>>> it by
>>>    not tearing down the drm vblank structure.
>>>
>>>    Signed-off-by: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
>>>    Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
>>>
>>> Reverting it brings back my X screen at first start.
>>>
>>
>> Just for testing, can you try without using vesafb....
>>
>> so remove the vga= line from the commandline or build the kernel
>> without vesafb support.
>>
> I can confirm the problem without vesafb

Can you boot to a runlevel with no X running
do
modprobe drm debug=1
or if drm is loaded
echo 1 > /sys/module/drm/parameters/debug
and then start X

and attach the dmesg here.

I've some ideas but no concrete reason for what might be going wrong.

Dave.