[git pull] drm for rc1

[Anca Emanuel]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Anca Emanuel <anca.emanuel at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 3:45 PM, James Simmons <jsimmons at infradead.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Christian Borntraeger
>>> <borntraeger at de.ibm.com> wrote:
>>> > Am 12.01.2011 00:28, schrieb Linus Torvalds:
>>> >> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Christian Borntraeger
>>> >> <borntraeger at de.ibm.com> wrote:
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Now nouveau framebuffer is completely broken on my T61p (01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G84M [Quadro FX 570M] (rev a1))
>>> >>> During startup the framebuffer shows only stripes and a blank
>>> >>> screen after suspend/resume.
>>> >>> I also see lots of TRAP messages. (see below).
>>> >>> X11 seems to work fine though...
>>> >>
>>> >> Can you try to bisect?
>>> >
>>> > dfe63bb0ad9810db13aab0058caba97866e0a681 is the first bad commit
>>> > commit dfe63bb0ad9810db13aab0058caba97866e0a681
>>> > Author: James Simmons <jsimmons at infradead.org>
>>> > Date:   Thu Dec 23 16:40:37 2010 +0000
>>> >
>>> >    drm: Update fbdev fb_fix_screeninfo
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Reverting this on top of todays git also fixes my problem.
>>> >
>>> > Christian
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>>>
>>> I tested the revert: the boot screen did change the resolution
>>> (without it don't), but my PC still hangs. (using an nvidia 8800GT).
>>
>> Try my most recent patch. Where does it hang at? Any logs?
>>
>
> With your patch, I can boot the system. But nouveau is not loaded.
> dmesg attached.
>

Forget to mention: the revert makes first steps of boot look the same
(change the resolution of the text)
but with your patch, I see a big ugly ununtu logo, (I think that is
because nouveau is not loaded)