[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] Screen corruption and crash at boot with Xen 4.1.0 & linux 2.6.39 on some systems
On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 02:08:03PM +0100, Anthony Wright wrote: > I have a custom built system based on LFS 6.6 with xen 4.1.0 & linux 2.6.39 > built from source. The system boots correctly on one system (after a problem > with the USB disk has been worked around), however when I try to boot the > same system on another machine the screen corrupts shortly after handover > from the bootloader. This happens on 2 out of the 3 machines I have tried it > on. > > I was originally using xen 4.1.0 & linux 2.6.38.7, and with this combination > the bootloader would work correctly, xen would work correctly and it would > crash and the screen corrupt on the handover from xen to linux. I had a hunt > around and found http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenPVOPSDRM which talks > about the graphics subsystem and says "What is boils down to is: if you want > to use a stock kernel from ftp.kernel.org wait till 2.6.39 gets released". As > a result I have switched to xen 4.1.0 & linux 2.6.39 but get the same result. We missed a couple of patches and had to revert some. > > The motherboard is a Gigabit GA-MA69VM-S2. > > The lspci -vvv output is attached. > > What I did notice is the way the screen resolution changes during boot is > different for the two main machines that I test on. On the machine that > works, instead of the 80x25 console that I'm used to with xen 3.4.1, I get a > much higher resolution output with two penguins at the top with 4.1.0. When I > boot the system without the xen hypervisor linux starts at the 80x25 > resolution but then quickly puts the screen into high resolution. On the > machine that fails, when I boot the system without the xen hypervisor, linux > starts at 80x25 resolution, appears to do a resolution change (whole screen > flickers) a few seconds later but leaves the resolution at 80x25. > > Am I doing something wrong? Is this a bug? Is there a workaround? Should I > try a different kernel version? Try git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen.git stable/2.6.39.x and if that does not work, on top of that branch, also try reverting these two patches: 03a80665341bbb9a57064c2ddeca13b554d56893 ("drm/radeon/nouveau: fix build regression on alpha due to Xen changes.) and d87dfdbfc91c5e37288e7e8f7afdd992ba61a60d. ("Revert "ttm: Utilize the DMA API for pages that have TTM_PAGE_FLAG_DMA32 set.") > > I'm happy to live with the 80x25 resolution screen but none of the screen > resolution options that I've tried have had any effect. > > Thanks, > > Anthony. > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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