Bug#647858: loading kernel module viafb blacks out Sylvania G netbook

2013-08-13 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 05:39:28PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: reassign 647858 src:linux thanks On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 05:49:57AM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Hi, Thanks for the detailed reply. Trying to speed things up, in the mean while, On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at

Bug#647858: loading kernel module viafb blacks out Sylvania G netbook

2013-08-12 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
reassign 647858 src:linux thanks On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 05:49:57AM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Hi, Thanks for the detailed reply. Trying to speed things up, in the mean while, On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 04:05:06PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Tzafrir Cohen wrote: [...] ACPI:

Bug#647858: loading kernel module viafb blacks out Sylvania G netbook

2011-12-03 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 06:33:31PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Tzafrir Cohen wrote: The system does not freeze on a 'modprobe viafb'. It merely blanks the screen. If I disable loading this module, I will basically load. The system will still hang at random a while later (several hours?

Bug#647858: loading kernel module viafb blacks out Sylvania G netbook

2011-12-03 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Attached. There fas an fsck which has delayed the boot. sdb is a card readers, and is empty. Thanks. [...] I'm not exactly sure what would upstream be. That's exactly the right line of reasoning. It sounds like preventing viafb from loading does not avoid trouble, so

Bug#647858: loading kernel module viafb blacks out Sylvania G netbook

2011-12-03 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Jonathan Nieder wrote: There's a recent patch in the PCI tree (but not in mainline yet) that might change this behavior and which I am rather fond of (7f92c4f7d92a, PCI: Rework ASPM disable code, 2011-11-10). Attaching it in case you want to try it. Actually attaching this time. commit

Bug#647858: loading kernel module viafb blacks out Sylvania G netbook

2011-12-02 Thread Jonathan Nieder
# Tzafrir Cohen wrote: # # I also tried a self-compiled 3.2.0-rc2 with the same results. tags 647858 = upstream quit Tzafrir Cohen wrote: The system does not freeze on a 'modprobe viafb'. It merely blanks the screen. If I disable loading this module, I will basically load. The system will