On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 05:56:31PM +0000, James Simmons wrote: > > > I'm not really sure if this is the right place, as I suspect my issues > > are on the kernel-level, but I figure this would be a good start. > > > > I'm playing with a Sylvania netbook based on VIA C7-M CPU with a > > VX700-based display adapter (see lspci and such below). It originally > > had a system called gOS which I didn't really like. I installed Debian > > Testing on it. It is currently running an up-to-date system with the > > latest kernel from Debian Unstable. Though I also had similar issues > > with various other Debian kernels (2.6.32-5-686 from Stable, 2.6.32, > > 3.0) and with self-compiled 3.0.8 and 3.2.0-rc2. > > Did you enable the "X server compatibility" for the viafb driver?
Yes. > If you > enable that and it still doesn't work then your best bet is to just > disable the vaifb driver. The xorg driver will work fine with UMS mode. > Also the DVI port is not supported at this time. That's what I have. Anything that can be done to help with KMS? > > > When viafb is loaded the screen blacks-out immediately. If I disable > > loading it, I manage to get a display working. OpenChrome seems to be > > used in X. Not good enough for Gnome3, but it works. > > That is due to the lack of OpenGL support :-( > > > However if I try to suspend and resume, the system resumes OK, but the > > display is messed up. pm-suspend --quirk-s3-bios seems to work around > > it. > > > > Occasionally the system just hangs completely. I have no idea what makes > > it hang. I ran it with memtest86+ for a number of days and no problem > > was found. I see no aparant error message on the console. I tried > > running a network console a few times and got no useful output. > > I'm really at loss on how to debug/fix this. > > Sounds like a GPU lockup. Usually this happens with the DMA engine. > First try with the viafb driver. If that doesn't work you can install the > debug version of the xorg server and do a gdb backtrace of it. > The system locks up completely. How will a debug version help? Even a remote ssh session is hung. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [email protected] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [email protected] | | best [email protected] | | friend _______________________________________________ openchrome-users mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.openchrome.org/mailman/listinfo/openchrome-users Main page: http://www.openchrome.org Wiki: http://wiki.openchrome.org User Forum: http://wiki.openchrome.org/tikiwiki/tiki-view_forum.php?forumId=1
