Bug 232584 - Kernel 2.6.20-1.2925.fc6 does not correctly detect PCI Bridge
Summary: Kernel 2.6.20-1.2925.fc6 does not correctly detect PCI Bridge
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 6
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Brian Brock
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-03-16 08:27 UTC by Daniel Duggan
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
0 users

Fixed In Version: 2.6.20-1.2944.fc6
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2007-04-16 19:53:11 UTC
Type: ---
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
/sbin/lspci -t /sbin/lspci | grep -i nvidia uname -r 2.6.20-1.2925.fc6 (2.59 KB, text/plain)
2007-03-16 08:27 UTC, Daniel Duggan
no flags Details
Working and Not Working Dmesg (53.10 KB, text/plain)
2007-03-19 23:58 UTC, Daniel Duggan
no flags Details
Dmesg from 2.6.20 Kernel booted with pci=nocommf with and without SLI enabled (55.49 KB, application/octet-stream)
2007-03-23 02:26 UTC, Daniel Duggan
no flags Details
dmesg and xorg.0.log from 2944 i686 kernel (28.92 KB, text/plain)
2007-04-14 03:10 UTC, Daniel Duggan
no flags Details
xorg.0.log 2944 i686 kernel (28.07 KB, text/plain)
2007-04-14 03:11 UTC, Daniel Duggan
no flags Details
Dmesg and xorg without SLI (215.74 KB, application/octet-stream)
2007-04-16 06:15 UTC, Daniel Duggan
no flags Details
Dmesg and xorg with SLI (329.18 KB, application/octet-stream)
2007-04-16 06:16 UTC, Daniel Duggan
no flags Details

Description Daniel Duggan 2007-03-16 08:27:45 UTC
Description of problem:
Kernel 2.6.20-1.2925.fc6 does not properly detect the PCI Bridge in order to
successfully configure SLI
This is a regression from previous kernels ... SLI has worked fine with most if
not all kernels since 2.17
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.6.20-1.2925.fc6 

How reproducible:
100 %

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Boot with SLI enabled
2.
3.
  
Actual results:
The kernel does not properly detect the PCI bridge and therefore the 
X server will not start .. black screen mouse is active

Expected results:
The kernel should properly detect the PCI bridge

Additional info:
2 Nvidia  [GeForce 7800 GTX]
Not a driver issue as far as I can determine as the same failure occurs whether
I use the nv or kmod-nvida from the Livna repo

When SLI is disabled the boot, login and the successful start of the Xserver
works as expected.

Comment 1 Daniel Duggan 2007-03-16 08:27:45 UTC
Created attachment 150201 [details]
/sbin/lspci -t    /sbin/lspci | grep -i nvidia  uname -r
2.6.20-1.2925.fc6

Comment 2 Chuck Ebbert 2007-03-16 15:01:06 UTC
Output of "rpm -qa | grep nvidia" does not show the
driver for kernel 2925. If you have both 2911.6.5
and 2925 kernels installed, you should see:

$ rpm -qa | grep nvidia
kmod-nvidia-1.0.9755-2.2.6.20_1.2925.fc6
kmod-nvidia-1.0.9755-2.2.6.19_1.2911.6.5.fc6
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-1.0.9755-3.lvn6


Comment 3 Daniel Duggan 2007-03-17 11:41:01 UTC
Hello:
My mistake as I failed to include that :)

#rpm -qa | grep nvidia
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-1.0.9755-3.lvn6
kmod-nvidia-1.0.9755-2.2.6.19_1.2911.6.5.fc6
kmod-nvidia-1.0.9755-2.2.6.20_1.2925.fc6

Dan

Comment 4 Daniel Duggan 2007-03-18 06:42:39 UTC
The kernel 2.6.20-1.2925.fc6 can be successfully booted with SLI enabled when I
boot with
pci=nommconf added as a parameter.

Dan

Comment 5 Dave Jones 2007-03-19 19:37:23 UTC
please attach a dmesg output from a working and non-working kernel
(note: attach, not paste into comments :)

Comment 6 Daniel Duggan 2007-03-19 23:58:08 UTC
Created attachment 150445 [details]
Working and Not Working Dmesg

Hello:
Both were created with SLI enabled [/etc/X11/xorg.conf] and without any desktop
effects enabled

Dan

Comment 7 Daniel Duggan 2007-03-20 01:07:50 UTC
Hello:
Just some additional information, hopefully it helps as I am not all that
technical and somewhat confused ?
With SLI enabled, the same xorg.conf and the same nViida drivers:
And no desktop effects enabled [compiz or beryl] everything appears to work
correctly and as expected.  This is the same with both the 2.6.19 and 2.6.20
kernels.

With desktop effects enabled [compiz or beryl] the 2.6.19 kernel works as
expected. However, the 2.6.20 kernel will not launch a usable DE [Gnome, KDE or
XFCE]
If SLI is disabled the 2.6.20 kernel works fine with desktop effects [compiz or
beryl] enabled ?
SLI and whether it is enabled or disabled, seems to be the only variable I can
track down 

Regards

Dan


Comment 8 Chuck Ebbert 2007-03-20 18:17:12 UTC
Can you post the log from working 2.6.20 (with pci=nommconf) ?



Comment 9 Daniel Duggan 2007-03-23 02:26:14 UTC
Created attachment 150718 [details]
Dmesg from 2.6.20 Kernel booted with pci=nocommf with and without SLI enabled

Comment 10 Daniel Duggan 2007-03-23 05:42:14 UTC
Hello:
I just wanted to add that with pci=nommconf it may or may not boot correctly to
the Desktop with SLI enabled.
It's about a 50/50 chance.

Dan

Comment 11 Daniel Duggan 2007-03-24 00:26:09 UTC
Hello:
Exactly the same issue with the latest kernel 2.6.20-1.2933.fc6 and same nVidia
kmod-nvidia drivers

Dan

Comment 12 Daniel Duggan 2007-04-14 03:10:38 UTC
Created attachment 152601 [details]
dmesg and xorg.0.log from 2944 i686 kernel

Comment 13 Daniel Duggan 2007-04-14 03:11:58 UTC
Created attachment 152602 [details]
xorg.0.log 2944 i686 kernel

Comment 14 Daniel Duggan 2007-04-14 03:16:07 UTC
Comment on attachment 152601 [details]
dmesg and xorg.0.log from 2944 i686 kernel

Hello:
Thanks folks.

It appears that the changes made to the 2944 kernel have fixed the issue.
2.6.20-1.2944.fc6 i686
kmod-nvidia-1.0.9755-2.2.6.20_1.2944.fc6

Dan

Comment 15 Daniel Duggan 2007-04-16 06:15:46 UTC
Created attachment 152666 [details]
Dmesg and xorg without SLI

Comment 16 Daniel Duggan 2007-04-16 06:16:39 UTC
Created attachment 152667 [details]
Dmesg and xorg with SLI


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