1. ASpeed Technologies KMS VGA Driver error in log 2. Hi, I have an error message in my kernel log and I don't know if this need to be taken care of or this is a normal behaviour.
The component is [PATCH] drm: Initial KMS driver for AST (ASpeed Technologies) 2000 series This article is related to the new compoent. http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2012-April/021578.html The code file should be Linux/drivers/gpu/drm/ast/ast_mode.c The error I have is [ 7.518793] [drm:ast_cursor_init] *ERROR* pinned cursor cache at 0 When I start my machine, I receive these messages from the component. [ 7.515770] ast 0000:01:01.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0003) [ 7.516711] [drm] AST 1100 detected [ 7.516764] [drm] dram 324000000 0 32 04000000 ** [ 7.518793] [drm:ast_cursor_init] *ERROR* pinned cursor cache at 0 ** [ 23.703894] fb1: astdrmfb frame buffer device [ 23.703897] drm: registered panic notifier [ 23.703902] [drm] Initialized ast 0.1.0 20120228 for 0000:01:01.0 on minor 0 This can be traced back to the function int ast_cursor_init(struct drm_device *dev) and DRM_ERROR("pinned cursor cache at %llx\n", ast->cursor_cache_gpu_addr); So.. is this normal ? ? ? 3. /proc/version Linux version 3.5.3-1-ARCH (tobias@T-POWA-LX) (gcc version 4.7.1 20120721 (prerelease) (GCC) ) #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Aug 26 09:14:51 CEST 2012 7.lspci -vvvvvvvv 01:01.0 VGA compatible controller: ASPEED Technology, Inc. ASPEED Graphics Family (rev 10) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: ASPEED Technology, Inc. ASPEED Graphics Family Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17 Region 0: Memory at f7000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8M] Region 1: Memory at f6fe0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K] Region 2: I/O ports at b000 [size=128] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=375mA PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot +,D3cold+) Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Kernel driver in use: ast Motherboard Asus Z8NA-D6C Also, I do *not* use the inboard graphical card. I plugged an external card in the pci-express slow on this board. There is no options in the bios to deactive the external card and check if the message is different. As I am using another card, the system does work. Please advise. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/