Re: Solid lockup on latest benh 2.6 kernel + PB 12"
On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 04:47, David Pye wrote:
> Hi,
>
> my dmesg and kern.log seem full of info which floods the useful info you
> requested. I did spot it mentioning initialising OpenFirmware framebuffer
> driver. Any idea of how to get the whole dmesg output?
>
> Also, I get many copies of this error in kern.log
>
> IN from bad port 64 at c014f020
That seem to indicate you have some legacy shit compiled in your
kernel. Are you using a pmac_defconfig ?
> Regards the framebuffer, Interestingly, this does not lock up the fb:
>
> ls -1 -R /
>
> whereas
>
> ls -R / does. Column widths perhaps?
>
> append="video=ofonly" appears to have no effect on this lockup so far.
>
> Regards,
>
> David
>
> On Tuesday 17 February 2004 23:39, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 09:45, David Pye wrote:
> > > I've rushed ahead and made the change to mine, and it doesn't seem to
> > > make any difference.
> > >
> > > Sometimes a hang on boot, but what DEFINITELY triggers it is doing
> > > something like ls /dev on a console. From an xterm it's fine, but from
> > > the console - bang the framebuffer locks solid. The box is still running
> > > fine though.
> >
> > Are you _certain_ you actually tested with video=ofonly ? That is
> > append=" video=ofonly" in yaboot.conf ? Send me a dmesg log of that
> > case so I can check if offb is really picking up the display.
> >
> > Ben.
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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