Ben, So are you basically saying this problem is not fixable, and switching tty's can't be expected to work under xen?
Thanks, Dylan On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 9:31 AM, Debian Bug Tracking System < ow...@bugs.debian.org> wrote: > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report > which was filed against the src:linux package: > > #761469: xen-linux-system-3.2.0-4-amd64: xen kernel appears misconfigured > for uvesafb > > It has been closed by Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk>. > > Their explanation is attached below along with your original report. > If this explanation is unsatisfactory and you have not received a > better one in a separate message then please contact Ben Hutchings < > b...@decadent.org.uk> by > replying to this email. > > > -- > 761469: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=761469 > Debian Bug Tracking System > Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> > To: 761469-d...@bugs.debian.org > Cc: > Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 15:17:08 +0200 > Subject: Re: xen-linux-system-3.2.0-4-amd64: xen kernel appears > misconfigured for uvesafb > This is not a configuration issue. uvesafb requires making BIOS calls, > but Xen PV domains do not have access to the BIOS. > > Ben. > > -- > Ben Hutchings > Teamwork is essential - it allows you to blame someone else. > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Dylan Cali <calid1...@gmail.com> > To: Debian Bug Tracking System <sub...@bugs.debian.org> > Cc: > Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 00:16:34 -0500 > Subject: xen-linux-system-3.2.0-4-amd64: xen kernel appears misconfigured > for uvesafb > Package: xen-linux-system-3.2.0-4-amd64 > Version: 3.2.60-1+deb7u3 > Severity: important > > Dear Maintainer, > > Original symptom: under x11 switching tty's causes blank screen and > monitor > going to sleep. > > Researching indicated this could be related to having a Nvidia graphics > card as well as a missing or misconfigured uvesafb module. [1] Checking > dmesg > showed the following error: > > [ 4.796570] uvesafb: Getting VBE info block failed (eax=0x4f00, err=0) > [ 4.796635] uvesafb: vbe_init() failed with -22 > [ 4.796688] uvesafb: probe of uvesafb.0 failed with error -22 > > Also /sys/bus/platform/drivers/uvesafb/uvesafb.0/vbe_modes did not > exist. > > When booting with the standard Debian linux kernel instead of xen tty > switching under x11 worked as expected. There were no errors in demsg > output: > > [ 3.275811] uvesafb: NVIDIA Corporation, GF110 Board - 12610002, Chip > Rev > , OEM: NVIDIA, VBE v3.0 > [ 3.385649] uvesafb: VBIOS/hardware doesn't support DDC transfers > [ 3.385651] uvesafb: no monitor limits have been set, default refresh > rate > will be used > [ 3.386354] uvesafb: scrolling: redraw > [ 3.563068] uvesafb: framebuffer at 0xf1000000, mapped to > 0xffffc90006680000, using 14336k, total 14336k > > Also /sys/bus/platform/drivers/uvesafb/uvesafb.0/vbe_modes existed with > expected content. > > This seems to indicate the Debian xen kernel has not been correctly > configured for use with the uvesafb module. > > [1] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=120326 > > > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 7.6 > APT prefers stable > APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > Foreign Architectures: i386 > > Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > > Versions of packages xen-linux-system-3.2.0-4-amd64 depends on: > ii linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64 3.2.60-1+deb7u3 > ii xen-system-amd64 4.1.4-3+deb7u2 > > xen-linux-system-3.2.0-4-amd64 recommends no packages. > > xen-linux-system-3.2.0-4-amd64 suggests no packages. > > -- no debconf information > >
