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 at redhat.com>
> >- 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.

-- 
G.Wolfe Woodbury     `- -'
RHCT                   U
The Line Eater is a boojum!
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