3.16.x on i686

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2014-06-25 at 19:58 +0200, poma wrote:
> On 25.06.2014 19:08, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On Wed, 2014-06-25 at 10:05 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> >> On Wed, 2014-06-25 at 12:02 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> >>> On 2014-06-25 08:12 (GMT-0700) Adam Williamson composed:
> >>>
> >>>>> Where did you see "X initialization fails"? I've been booting with 3 on
> >>>>> cmdline. Anyway, here's 2 of 3 drm.debug=15 dmesgs captured:
> >>>
> >>>>> http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/F/dmsgI865Gf21k316rc2g01.txt
> >>>                                          ^^^^^
> >>>
> >>>> Er...this seems to be the log from the hardware you describe in your bug
> >>>> comment, but:
> >>>
> >>>>> http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/F/dmsgI945Gf21k316rc2g01.txt
> >>>                                          ^^^^^
> >>>> What is this from?
> >>>
> >>> On 2014-06-24 23:54 (GMT-0400) Felix Miata composed:
> >>>
> >>>> It's repeatable ... on i865G, i915G and i945G
> >>>
> >>> And the one in the middle:
> >>>
> >>> http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/F/dmsgI915Gf21k316rc2g01.txt
> >>
> >> So...these are three different machines?
> >>
> >> I'm curious: why are you passing video= parameters on each one? Do
> >> any/all of them work if you don't pass that parameter?
> >
> > ...and does it work if you append an 'e':
> >
> > video=1024x768e
> >
> > ?
> >
> 
> "'e' will force the display to be enabled, i.e. it will override the detection
> if a display is connected."
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/fb/modedb.txt
> 
> Felix:
> "... Otherwise when init seems near completion, the screen goes black and
> stays that way. ..."
> 
> Obviously the screen is detected and enabled,

Sorry, but nope: the point where it fails may be the point where the
intel kernel driver does hotplug detection.

>  however failing at Xorg initialisation,

That's what I thought at first, but it isn't. He's booting with '3',
i.e. not to X.
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