[Intel-gfx] i855GM, KMS and framebuffer console

[Alexey Fisher]

Am Samstag, den 14.11.2009, 21:30 +0100 schrieb Daniele C.:
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> Florian Mickler ha scritto:
> > On Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:52:23 +0100
> > Andre Müller <andremuellerster at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Daniele C. wrote:
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> since when KMS support was added to kernel I am not able to boot with
> >>> KMS active and see a working framebuffer console (to tell the truth, I
> >>> see no console at all, screen is off).
> >> This sounds quite like the snag I hit in
> >> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22674
> >>
> >> The solution is to modprobe fbcon as well.
> >>
> >> HTH,
> >> Andre
> > 
> > I would say that that is a workaround. A solution would be something
> > that wouldn't rely on the user doing the right thing or at least guide
> > the user to dtrt. Maybe some emergency-print-code in the driver to
> > show "no console loaded, shutting pipe down" or smth else?
> > 
> > But this is just my opinion. And it isn't really that big an issue. 
> > (Maybe there is some "bluescreen" stuff on it's way already?)
> > 
> I agree with Florian, the console shows up till some driver activation quirk, then absolute black. This is making intel drivers debugging impossible on this machine.

Haw about to use ssh for debug?

Regards,

Alexey