Re: rawhide report: 20050912 changes - weird video

[G.Wolfe Woodbury]

On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 09:16:43PM +0200, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
>  Build System wrote:
>   > kernel-2.6.13-1.1549_FC5
>  >------------------------
>  >* Sat Sep 10 2005 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com&gt;
>  >- 2.6.13-git10
>  
>  When I boot with the kernels 1547 or 1549 and I get to the "Initializing 
>  Hardware" bit the display vanishes after "audio" gets printed and my 
>  monitor tells me that the frequency is out of range. The machine then 
>  continues to boot normaly an as soon as XOrg comes up everything works 
>  fine. When I shut down the machine again and it goes back to text mode I 
>  get the signal frequency out of range error by my monitor again.
>  Kernel 1530 did not show this behaviour (but does no longer work for me 
>  since USB and network devices no longer work after the latest rawhide 
>  updates).
>  
>  Is anybody else seeing this and/or has an idea for a workaround? 
I had this problem with a Trident CyberBladei1 card on a machine and
inserted "tridentfb" into /etc/hotplug/blacklist" to prevent the
rc.sysinit from loading the tridentfb driver.

Bill Nottingham says that sysinit shouldn't be inserting everything, and
I'm inclined to agree that this is a bug.  There is a
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist file that should be eliminated/moved/used
instead of /etc/hotplug/blacklist (the formats are incompatible
apparently).

DaveJ pointed out that most of the framebuffer drivers are old and
decrepit and may have some misfeatures.

Add your video driver to /etc/hotplug/blacklist and things might work
again.

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