Bug 468294

Summary: F10 Blackscreen with cursor then whitescreen after kernel update
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Gerald Cox <gbcox>
Component: kernelAssignee: Dave Airlie <airlied>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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results of dmesg of system, before X started
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Xorg.0.log when whitescreen occurs
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Xorg.0.log when blackscreen occurs
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dmesg with kernel 2.6.27.3-44
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Xorg.0.log with kernel 2.6.27.3-44
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xorg.conf being used due to bug 467983 none

Description Gerald Cox 2008-10-23 22:21:56 UTC
Description of problem:
After application of 2.6.27.3-34.rc1.fc10.x86_64 and 
2.6.27.39.fc10.x86_64 receive a whitescreen instead of logon screen when 
booting.  When I specify "nomodeset" I receive a black screen.
Workaround is to boot with kernel 2.6.27.3-30.rc1.fc10.x86_64


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Kernel:  2.6.27.39.fc10

How reproducible:
Normal boot


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot system
2.
3.
  
Actual results:
No special boot parameters receive:  White Screen
"nomodeset" receive:  Black Screen

Expected results:
Receive login screen.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Gerald Cox 2008-10-23 22:59:28 UTC
Created attachment 321353 [details]
results of dmesg of system, before X started

Comment 2 Gerald Cox 2008-10-23 23:00:19 UTC
Created attachment 321354 [details]
Xorg.0.log when whitescreen occurs

Comment 3 Gerald Cox 2008-10-23 23:00:55 UTC
Created attachment 321355 [details]
Xorg.0.log when blackscreen occurs

Comment 4 Gerald Cox 2008-10-25 04:40:05 UTC
*** Bug 468334 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Gerald Cox 2008-10-25 04:50:06 UTC
This looks the same as 468369.

Comment 6 Gerald Cox 2008-10-25 15:41:24 UTC
Applied:

kernel-2.6.27.3-44.fc10.x86_64

Problem still exists.  Attaching new dmesg and Xorg.0.log.

Also, found that what is occurring without "nomodeset" parameter is:

1.  Black screen with cursor blinking in upper left hand corner of screen
2.  Then white screen with some "sparkles" appears
3.  Then hang
4.  Pressing power button without holding it down signals normal system shutdown

Workaround is kernel 2.6.27.3-30.rc1.fc10.x86_64

Comment 7 Gerald Cox 2008-10-25 15:43:49 UTC
Created attachment 321508 [details]
dmesg with kernel 2.6.27.3-44

Comment 8 Gerald Cox 2008-10-25 15:45:41 UTC
Created attachment 321509 [details]
Xorg.0.log with kernel 2.6.27.3-44

Comment 9 Gerald Cox 2008-10-25 15:47:14 UTC
Created attachment 321510 [details]
xorg.conf being used due to bug 467983

Comment 10 Gerald Cox 2008-10-25 15:48:12 UTC
For clarity purposes, problem also occurs when "nomodeset" is specified.

Comment 11 Pete Zaitcev 2008-10-25 16:59:09 UTC
*** Bug 468369 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12 Gerwin Krist 2008-10-26 11:49:32 UTC
Same problem here, seems only to happen with ATI gpu's. I have some other symptons actually:

normal:
- if plymouth is loaded (no bar comes up), my monitor starts blinking and nothing happens

with nomodeset:
- I see the plymouth bar running till end .... nothing happens

Really nasty, anyone knows where to find "old" working kernels, forced to use a fc9 kernel now ...

Comment 13 Jeff Layton 2008-10-26 14:47:08 UTC
I'm having similar problems...

You can get older kernels from koji:

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=8

Comment 14 Jeff Layton 2008-10-26 14:49:52 UTC
*** Bug 468505 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 15 Jeff Layton 2008-10-26 14:55:54 UTC
My symptoms are similar. When X starts, I get a "garbage pattern" with horizontal lines on the screen (maybe the result of uninit'ed video RAM?). If I boot with nomodeset, I also get a black screen when X starts. My video chip is:

01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 30ae
	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
	Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
	Latency: 66 (2000ns min), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
	Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17
	Region 0: Memory at c8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
	Region 1: I/O ports at 9000 [size=256]
	Region 2: Memory at c0100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
	[virtual] Expansion ROM at c0120000 [disabled] [size=128K]
	Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
		Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
		Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
	Kernel modules: radeonfb, radeon

Let me know if you need other info. While I haven't tried it, the machine seems to be responsive when it's in this state. It's just the display that's problematic. I can probably set it up so that I can ssh into the laptop when it's in this state and collect other info if it'll be helpful.

Comment 16 Gerald Cox 2008-10-26 23:45:31 UTC
Applied:  kernel-2.6.27.4-47.rc3.fc10.x86_64
Problem still exists.  No change.

Workaround continues to be:  kernel-2.6.27.3-30.rc1.fc10.x86_64

Comment 17 Gerald Cox 2008-10-27 23:25:53 UTC
Applied:  kernel-2.6.27.4-51.fc10.x86_64
Problem still exists.  No change.

Workaround continues to be:  kernel-2.6.27.3-30.rc1.fc10.x86_64

Comment 18 Gerald Cox 2008-10-29 01:59:34 UTC
Applied:  kernel-2.6.27.4-58.fc10.x86_64
Problem resolved.  Closing.

Nice razzle/dazzle startup eye-candy btw... ;-)