Bug 132202

Summary: IBM T40p: screen goes blank after loading radeonfb
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Kaj J. Niemi <kajtzu>
Component: initscriptsAssignee: Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Description Kaj J. Niemi 2004-09-09 20:42:28 UTC
Description of problem:
An IBM T40p laptop running kernel 1.549 (was reproduceable with 1.540,
too) and booting into single user mode blanks the screen soon after
the "Initializing ... storage network audio" (around line 208 in
rc.sysinit).

The problematic module is radeonfb.

I am unsure how to proceed with this :) Attached is dmesg and lspci

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
initscripts-7.77-1
udev-030-22
kernel-2.6.8-1.549
kernel-2.6.8-1.540

How reproducible:
Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot.
2. Wait for "Initializing devices .. storage network audio"
3. 
  
Actual results:
Screen goes blank but cursor is not turned off. 


Additional info:
Acting on a hunch I did "/sbin/service kudzu start" in single mode and
the screen returned to colors.

I'm not sure if I should file this under kernel, udev or initscripts.

Easiest workaround for now was to add to rc.sysinit

        if [ "$module"x != "radeonfb"x ]; then
                modprobe $module >/dev/null 2>&1
        fi


Let me know if there's any other info you need to pinpoint this :)

Comment 1 Kaj J. Niemi 2004-09-09 20:43:24 UTC
Created attachment 103651 [details]
dmesg

Comment 2 Kaj J. Niemi 2004-09-09 20:43:50 UTC
Created attachment 103652 [details]
lspci -vvv

Comment 3 Kaj J. Niemi 2004-09-21 11:03:46 UTC
Not an issue in 581. Closing as works for me.