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 >

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

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

2007-02-27 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

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

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

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

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

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 would this only

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=VESA mode number).

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 config

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

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 board

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,

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 >>

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

2007-02-24 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 2.6.21-rc1

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. I've run a

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 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

2007-02-23 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

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

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/