Thanks Lars. It is looking more and more like a frame buffer issue. If you have the time to devote, you may want to remove quiet splash from the append in yaboot and add "drm.debug=0x4 log_buf_len=16M" so as not to have to type those every reboot. On the ones we can get to a shell, save a copy of dmesg. On the ones that x starts, whether viewable or not, drop to a shell and save Xorg.0.log as well. Idea being to clearly make a case to the devs once we find it and the logs to demonstrate. See in line.
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Lars Nooden <lars.noo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 14 May 2013, Str8bs wrote: >> Does booting with: "Linux snd-powermac.pinkelephant=yes" get any >> further before errors? > ... >> Can you get beyond error or further before the error with: >> 1. Linux single >> 2. Linux single snd-powermac.pinkelephant=yes (Or >> snd-powermac.blacklist=yes if you don't have a warped sense of humor. >> :) ) >> 3. Linux single nomodeset > > 0. I tried pinkelephant above and it boot as far as giving me the mouse > pointer on a strangely colored and patterned screen. But no evidence of > LCDE was present. Sounds like x is starting using FBDEV even though Radeon KMS is present. Could you ctl-alt-f1 to shell? If so, output of cat /proc/fb ? If you add video=radeonfb:yada to pinkelephant, is desktop viewable? > > 1. Linux single by itself give the recursive fault. > > 2. Linux single with pinkelephant boots to a root shell with no X and no > login. So I guess that works as expected. > Yes > 3. Linux single nomodeset also ends with a recursive fault. Could you repeat and rule out framebuffer? Linux single nomodeset video=offb:off Linux single nomodeset video=radeonfb:off > > Regards, > /Lars > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa > Post to : lubuntu-qa@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa Post to : lubuntu-qa@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
