black vttys no longer (i845G regressed?)

[Felix Miata]

On 2014-06-26 12:40 (GMT-0400) Felix Miata composed:

> On 2014-06-25 12:53 (GMT-0700) Adam Williamson composed:

>>> OTOH, might what's described at
>>> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/intel-gfx/2014-June/047981.html be an
>>> upstream solution forthcoming?

>> Good spot - that may very well be your issue, yeah, since you're using a
>> CRT display. It would also explain why I can't reproduce the bug on my
>> Intel graphics system, which is a laptop.

>> I might be able to whip up a test kernel for you later with that patch
>> applied.

> Already fixed in rc2.git2.1 on the mirrors. :-)

In rc2.git4.1 on i845G, either it already regressed, or never left. :-(

24.212753] gzip (241) used greatest stack depth: 5072 bytes left
[   27.486778] intel_rng: Firmware space is locked read-only. If you can't or
intel_rng: don't want to disable this in firmware setup, and if
intel_rng: you are certain that your system has a functional
intel_rng: RNG, try using the 'no_fwh_detect' option.
[   28.739458] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[   29.743365] microcode: CPU0 sig=0xf29, pf=0x4, revision=0x2e
[   29.863491] microcode: Microcode Update Driver: v2.00 
<tigran at aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>, Peter Oruba
[   30.554376] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
[   30.654113] iTCO_vendor_support: vendor-support=0
[   30.928260] iTCO_wdt: Intel TCO WatchDog Timer Driver v1.11
[   30.928599] iTCO_wdt: Found a ICH4 TCO device (Version=1, TCOBASE=0x0460)
[   30.945298] iTCO_wdt: initialized. heartbeat=30 sec (nowayout=0)
[   31.043903] [drm] Memory usable by graphics device = 128M
[   31.044199] [drm] Replacing VGA console driver
[   31.055722] Console: switching to colour dummy device 80x25
[   31.075386] [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 2 (21.10.2013).
[   31.075474] [drm] Driver supports precise vblank timestamp query.
[   31.081165] vgaarb: device changed decodes: 
PCI:0000:00:02.0,olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=io+mem:owns=io+mem
[   31.086203] [drm:i9xx_set_fifo_underrun_reporting] *ERROR* pipe A underrun
[   31.125306] [drm] initialized overlay support
[   31.125401] i915 0000:00:02.0: No connectors reported connected with modes
[   31.125482] [drm] Cannot find any crtc or sizes - going 1024x768
[   31.163431] fbcon: inteldrmfb (fb0) is primary device
[   31.179359] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
[   31.188771] i915 0000:00:02.0: fb0: inteldrmfb frame buffer device
[   31.188913] i915 0000:00:02.0: registered panic notifier
[   31.192178] [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20080730 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 0
[   32.510124] snd_intel8x0 0000:00:1f.5: intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: 
measured 50454 usecs (2432 --
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