Bug 208610 – black screen when hitting rhgb

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Bug 208610 - black screen when hitting rhgb

Summary:	black screen when hitting rhgb

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

Aliases:	None

Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	xorg-x11-server (Show other bugs)
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Version:	rawhide
Hardware:	x86_64 Linux

Priority	medium Severity high
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Reported:	2006-09-29 13:19 EDT by David Nielsen
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:11 EST (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2006-10-02 11:25:17 EDT
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Xorg.0.log (69.98 KB, text/plain) 2006-09-29 13:30 EDT, David Nielsen	no flags	Details
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Description David Nielsen 2006-09-29 13:19:03 EDT

Description of problem:
After the following fix:
> - xorg-x11-server-1.1.1-vt-activate-is-a-terrible-api.patch: Since the
>   VT_ACTIVATE/VT_WAITACTIVE pair are never guaranteed to successfully
>   complete, set a 5 second timeout on the WAITACTIVE, and retry the pair
>   until we win.  (#207746)

went in I had expected a return to working rhgb but instead I'm greeted by a
black screen. doing ctrl+alt+backspace restores the boot process.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.1.1-43.fc6

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot system
  
Actual results:
black screen

Expected results:
rhgb

Additional info:
AMD64 X2

Comment 1 David Nielsen 2006-09-29 13:30:36 EDT

Created attachment 137408 [details]
Xorg.0.log

And it helps if I actually attach the log file.. doh

Comment 2 Adam Jackson 2006-09-29 13:51:13 EDT

rpm -q xorg-x11-drv-ati

I suspect the DAC hack added in -2 is turning off your output when it shouldn't.

Comment 3 David Nielsen 2006-09-29 14:07:17 EDT

xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.6.2-11

I don't get that.. -2 should be the most recent one.. -11 ??

Comment 4 David Nielsen 2006-09-29 14:13:53 EDT

okay I removed the driver and reinstalled the -2 one released today, same problem.

Comment 5 Adam Jackson 2006-09-29 14:25:31 EDT

Try this test RPM:

http://people.freedesktop.org/~ajax/fedora/xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.6.2-2.fc6.jx.x86_64.rpm

(For the curious: changes the if (!bConnected) check in
radeon-6.6.2-dac-fix.patch to if (0), which should prevent us from turning off
the DAC, which would be one obvious source of black screens.)

Comment 6 David Nielsen 2006-09-30 14:04:24 EDT

well I tried booting after todays update since I saw an update from Dan Walsh to
selinux-policy that simply read "Fix rhgb". Regardless, this time rhgb pops. Can
anyone confirm the now non-brokenness of the behaviour?

Comment 7 Adam Jackson 2006-10-02 11:25:17 EDT

dwmw2 reports that the workaround in comment #5 works for him.  Adding to
6.6.2-4, and closing.

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