[Intel-gfx] KMS, GEM and 2.6.30-rc1

[Jesse Barnes]

On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 16:56:11 +0300
"Claudio M. Camacho" <claudiomkd at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thursday 09 April 2009 10:03:46 Jake wrote:
> > I am currently running 2.6.29, KMS on GM45, and it's pretty stable.
> > To get things
> > working I needed to add the following boot flag:
> >
> > i915.modeset=1
> >
> > Otherwise I would get corrupted terminals and could not exit X
> > without freezing.
> 
> Well, I am, of course, using i915.modeset=1 and my configuration is
> the same as yours, pretty much empty, apart from the UXA accel
> method. But still, X hangs as soon as KDM is started. In fact, even
> if I just boot without KDM and run Xorg or xinit or startx, X hangs
> in the same way.
> 
> Furthermore, and as I already explained in my first email, even with 
> modesetting enabled, I see an annoying mode switch when I run Xorg
> (or xinit or startx) before the hang. And, if it helps, the computer
> totally freezes, not just X (even power button does not do anything,
> which means acpid is also dead).

There's a bug open for this issue and a test patch available:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21077

> If nobody has a clue, I will have to file a bug, since this has been 
> happening for two months already.

Does the 'modetest' program work for you?  It's part of the drm repo...

Also have you tried git master of the xf86-video-intel driver?  AFAIK
2.6.3 should work ok but there have been many fixes added since then.
Also be sure all your package versions will work together, Carl
recently ran into an issue where one or more was incompatible (silently
unfortunately) leading to a hard hang at server startup.

Another thing to try is a totally stripped down session.  I.e. boot
into console mode only (with the new KMS console), and start X with
just an xterm (e.g. echo "exec xterm" > .xinitrc; startx).  It'll help
narrow things down.
-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center