Bug 491777
| Summary: | text console memory cache not swept when turning on drm | ||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | John Reiser <jreiser> | ||||
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Dave Airlie <airlied> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED CANTFIX | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | low | ||||||
| Version: | 11 | CC: | jglisse, kernel-maint | ||||
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| Hardware: | All | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2009-10-14 12:23:02 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
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This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle. Changing version to '11'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping don't add any vga option to your kernel boot line if you are using KMS this is know to give issue because vesa will mess with the GPU while KMS should be the only one messing with it. This should be fixed with newer kernel were vga option are ignored if KMS is enabled. Note that KMS will give you a console with native screen resolution (hence no need for special vga option). I will close this bug. |
Created attachment 336416 [details] dmesg which covers boot Description of problem: The VGA text console displays stale memory cache data shortly after drm is turned on at boot. The display corrects itself a few seconds later. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.29-0.258.rc8.git2.fc11.x86_64 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot " vga=ask" and select mode 0x324 (1280x1024x16) 2. watch text console immediately after the "flash" when drm is turned on 3. Actual results: Several lines of text have short runs of blank characters for a few seconds after drm is initialized, and the blanks get filled in with the proper characters "by magic" as the display scrolls for subsequent lines. Expected results: No change in display (except for vertical scrolling) of lines which were preiviously output to text console. Additional info: The bad display happens shortly after "[drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810" and looks like characters of several lines "usb N-1:M ..." have been overstruck by blanks.