On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:23:23 +0100 Datty <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks for the reply, I have looked at the document but unfortunately > I can't use Nouveau because I need 3d so I went for what I could use. > I've dropped uvesafb totally as it was pretty much useless anyway. It > has sort of helped a little, its coming up what seems like more often > than before but its still blanking quite a lot on boot. A few minutes > of switching terminals does eventually bring it up but there doesn't > seem to be any reasoning behind why it does and doesn't work. Nothing > jumps out at me in the log either. Sounds like a race condition between the kernel and the uvesafb driver. Only one of them can control the screen at any given time and console handover is a tricky business (IIRC this was one of the very things that drove the development of KMS). Perhaps every now and then uvesafb just ahppened to grab (or ungrab) the console at just the right time. -- Alan McKinnnon [email protected]
