Bug 168054 - linux consoles flicker after udev starts (not X)
Summary: linux consoles flicker after udev starts (not X)
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: rawhide
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dave Jones
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-09-11 20:16 UTC by G.Wolfe Woodbury
Modified: 2015-01-04 22:22 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2005-09-14 05:16:48 UTC
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Description G.Wolfe Woodbury 2005-09-11 20:16:07 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050909 Fedora/1.0.6-1.2.fc4 Firefox/1.0.6

Description of problem:
the linux console flickers badly after udev starts ona Celeron with a Trident Cyberblade SVGA card.  Prior to the "storage network audio done" message, the console is fine; afterwards, the console flickers off and on and the display of further messages are overlapping.

Once X startx, the console 7 display is fine, but switching back to 1 reveals a flickering display.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.13-1.1547_FC5

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. rawhide install as of 2005-09-10
2. trident cyberblade video card
3. reboot
  

Actual Results:  initial console display of boot messages is ok until the udev startup message that includes "storage network audio done" line appears, then the console flickers on and off.

Expected Results:  console display should remain steady and display rest of the booting messages normally.

Additional info:

System is a Celeron (coppermine) stepping 6 @ 600MHz
video card is Trident Cyberblade (generic)
realtek eth0 (works fine)
one IDE drive (5GiB) on ide0
NFS mount of /home and /srv (working fine - problem appears before mounts)
ATAPI Zip drive in system (not mounted)  Two CD/DVD ROM drives on ide1

Comment 1 G.Wolfe Woodbury 2005-09-12 06:07:10 UTC
The problem is in hte tridentfb module.  Adding tridentfb to
/etc/hotplug/blacklist prevents the module from being loaded by rc.sysinit and
the flicker/blinking goes away and everything is fine from then on.

I note that rc.sysinit references /etc/hotplug/blacklist and there is also an
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist that purports to handle the same sort of errors. 
Which rules?

Also, how would I go about adding module parameters for the tridentfb module in
/etc/sysconfig/modules/* ?  It may be that fiddling with the parameters can help
the problem.  Even so, the tridentfb driver is positively ancient (2002?)

Thanks to whomever for the note on fedora-devel mailing list about the
framebuffers module loading.  It pointed the way.

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2005-09-13 03:53:56 UTC
Note that with initscripts-8.14-1, it will no longer be loaded on boot (which is
the correct behavior.)

Comment 3 Dave Jones 2005-09-14 05:16:48 UTC
I'm going to close this as RAWHIDE, as I'm not going to actively debug this
further (largely due to lack of hardware, but also due to being overwhelmed with
more urgent bugs). If you feel inclined to help get the tridentfb driver in
shape, please bring it up in the upstream bugzilla at http://bugme.osdl.org

Thanks.



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