Re: 2.6.21-rc1: framebuffer/console boot failure

2007-03-04 Thread Antonino A. Daplas
On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 14:52 +, Andrew Nelless wrote: > On Mon, February 26, 2007 11:09 pm, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: > > > > Not sure if the timer override workaround for nvidia chipsets is the > > culprit, but if you want, you can choose to revert that to the previous > > behavior (which is >

Re: 2.6.21-rc1: framebuffer/console boot failure

2007-03-04 Thread Andrew Nelless
On Mon, February 26, 2007 11:09 pm, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: > > Not sure if the timer override workaround for nvidia chipsets is the > culprit, but if you want, you can choose to revert that to the previous > behavior (which is > ignoring ACPI timer override). Open > arch/x86_64/kernel/earlyqui

Re: 2.6.21-rc1: framebuffer/console boot failure

2007-02-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
Andrew wrote: I have just discovered 2.6.21-rc1 boots with pci=noacpi ... Try setting the resolution and frame rate, video=XXX:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or such. Worked for me. I like pci=noacpi, though ;-) -- Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompet

Re: 2.6.21-rc1: framebuffer/console boot failure

2007-02-26 Thread Antonino A. Daplas
On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 18:48 +, Andrew Nelless wrote: > On Mon, February 26, 2007 12:41 pm, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: > > > > I don't know, probably the ACPI code can now probably detect the > > presence or absence of the HPET timer. > > > > Can you remove CONFIG_FB_VESA support from your kernel

Re: 2.6.21-rc1: framebuffer/console boot failure

2007-02-26 Thread Andrew Nelless
On Mon, February 26, 2007 12:41 pm, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: > > I don't know, probably the ACPI code can now probably detect the > presence or absence of the HPET timer. > > Can you remove CONFIG_FB_VESA support from your kernel config but boot > as if you have vesafb (ie with vga=). Your machine

Re: 2.6.21-rc1: framebuffer/console boot failure

2007-02-26 Thread Antonino A. Daplas
On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 11:07 +, Andrew Nelless wrote: > On Sat, February 24, 2007 11:30 pm, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: > > > > How about booting with just vga=normal? > > > > > > Tony > > > > That seems to work too. I've rebooted about 20 times in a row > and it hasn't done it again yet. Why wou

Re: 2.6.21-rc1: framebuffer/console boot failure

2007-02-25 Thread Andrew Nelless
On Sat, February 24, 2007 11:30 pm, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: > > How about booting with just vga=normal? > > > Tony > That seems to work too. I've rebooted about 20 times in a row and it hasn't done it again yet. Why would this only occur at higher modes? In the 2.6.20 dmesg log it reads "Nvidia

Re: 2.6.21-rc1: framebuffer/console boot failure

2007-02-24 Thread Antonino A. Daplas
On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 23:00 +, Andrew Nelless wrote: > On Sat, February 24, 2007 11:09 am, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > Presumably this regression was caused by the ACPI merge. Are you able to > > capture the dmesg output from the 2.6.20-rc1 boot? netconsole might be > > useful here, thanks.

Re: 2.6.21-rc1: framebuffer/console boot failure

2007-02-24 Thread Andrew Nelless
On Sat, February 24, 2007 11:09 am, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Presumably this regression was caused by the ACPI merge. Are you able to > capture the dmesg output from the 2.6.20-rc1 boot? netconsole might be > useful here, thanks. > I've confirmed a few things: 1) 2.6.21-rc1 actually will boot

Re: 2.6.21-rc1: framebuffer/console boot failure

2007-02-24 Thread Andrew Nelless
On Sat, February 24, 2007 11:09 am, Andrew Morton wrote: >> On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 13:35:50 - (GMT) "Andrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> >> 2.6.21-rc1 fails to boot on my machine. As soon as I switch >> from grub the screen turns and remains black with no sign of Tux or any >> output.

Re: 2.6.21-rc1: framebuffer/console boot failure

2007-02-24 Thread Andrew Morton
> On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 13:35:50 - (GMT) "Andrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > 2.6.21-rc1 fails to boot on my machine. As soon as I switch > from grub the screen turns and remains black with no sign > of Tux or any output. > > I've run a git-bisect between 2.6.20 (which works fine) and

Re: 2.6.21-rc1: framebuffer/console boot failure

2007-02-23 Thread Andrew
I have just discovered 2.6.21-rc1 boots with pci=noacpi ... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

2.6.21-rc1: framebuffer/console boot failure

2007-02-23 Thread Andrew
Hi, 2.6.21-rc1 fails to boot on my machine. As soon as I switch from grub the screen turns and remains black with no sign of Tux or any output. I've run a git-bisect between 2.6.20 (which works fine) and 2.6.21-rc1 and found the first bad commit to be #59b8175c771040afcd4ad67022b0cc80c216b866 whi