[Bug 1434581] Re: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for certified servers with Matrox G200er2 or similar

2015-05-20 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
This bug was fixed in the package linux - 3.19.0-18.18 --- linux (3.19.0-18.18) vivid; urgency=low [ Luis Henriques ] * Release Tracking Bug - LP: #1456732 [ Upstream Kernel Changes ] * Revert "drm/i915: remove intel_pipe_set_base() (v4)" - LP: #1453593 linux (3.19

[Bug 1434581] Re: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for certified servers with Matrox G200er2 or similar

2015-05-19 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
This bug was fixed in the package linux - 3.16.0-38.52 --- linux (3.16.0-38.52) utopic; urgency=low [ Luis Henriques ] * Release Tracking Bug - LP: #1452623 [ Stefan Bader ] * SAUCE: vesafb: Set mtrr:3 (write-combining) as default - LP: #1434581 [ Upstream Kernel

[Bug 1434581] Re: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for certified servers with Matrox G200er2 or similar

2015-05-19 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
This bug was fixed in the package linux - 3.13.0-53.88 --- linux (3.13.0-53.88) trusty; urgency=low [ Brad Figg ] * Release Tracking Bug - LP: #1454785 [ Upstream Kernel Changes ] * mmc: card: Don't access RPMB partitions for normal read/write - LP: #1454013 linux

[Bug 1434581] Re: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for certified servers with Matrox G200er2 or similar

2015-05-12 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
This bug was fixed in the package linux - 3.19.0-17.17 --- linux (3.19.0-17.17) vivid; urgency=low [ Brad Figg ] * Release Tracking Bug - LP: #1452000 [ Damien Lespiau ] * SAUCE: i915_bpo: drm/i915/skl: Fix stepping check for a couple of W/As - LP: #1449469 * SAUC

[Bug 1434581] Re: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for certified servers with Matrox G200er2 or similar

2015-05-11 Thread Mike Jester
I tried all three kernels on a Dell R320 with no kernel command line options and they all resolve the issue. ** Tags removed: verification-needed-trusty verification-needed-utopic verification-needed-vivid ** Tags added: verification-done-trusty verification-done-utopic verification-done-vivid

[Bug 1434581] Re: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for certified servers with Matrox G200er2 or similar

2015-05-11 Thread Luis Henriques
This bug is awaiting verification that the kernel in -proposed solves the problem. Please test the kernel and update this bug with the results. If the problem is solved, change the tag 'verification-needed- utopic' to 'verification-done-utopic'. If verification is not done by 5 working days from t

[Bug 1434581] Re: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for certified servers with Matrox G200er2 or similar

2015-05-11 Thread Luis Henriques
This bug is awaiting verification that the kernel in -proposed solves the problem. Please test the kernel and update this bug with the results. If the problem is solved, change the tag 'verification-needed- vivid' to 'verification-done-vivid'. If verification is not done by 5 working days from tod

[Bug 1434581] Re: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for certified servers with Matrox G200er2 or similar

2015-05-11 Thread Luis Henriques
This bug is awaiting verification that the kernel in -proposed solves the problem. Please test the kernel and update this bug with the results. If the problem is solved, change the tag 'verification-needed- trusty' to 'verification-done-trusty'. If verification is not done by 5 working days from t

[Bug 1434581] Re: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for certified servers with Matrox G200er2 or similar

2015-05-07 Thread Andy Whitcroft
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Trusty) Status: Confirmed => Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1434581 Title: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for cer

[Bug 1434581] Re: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for certified servers with Matrox G200er2 or similar

2015-05-07 Thread Luis Henriques
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Utopic) Status: Confirmed => Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1434581 Title: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for cer

[Bug 1434581] Re: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for certified servers with Matrox G200er2 or similar

2015-05-05 Thread Brad Figg
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Vivid) Status: Confirmed => Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1434581 Title: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for cert

[Bug 1434581] Re: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for certified servers with Matrox G200er2 or similar

2015-04-21 Thread Mike Jester
That kernel flag works. Thanks for pushing this along. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1434581 Title: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for certified servers with Ma

[Bug 1434581] Re: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for certified servers with Matrox G200er2 or similar

2015-04-21 Thread Stefan Bader
SRU Justification: Impact: After dropping a sauce patch to make vesafb a module we accidentally dropped a change to make mtrr:3 (write-combining remap range) the default. This results in a performance degradation for graphics cards that have no drm framebuffer driver (especially on higher resoluti

[Bug 1434581] Re: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for certified servers with Matrox G200er2 or similar

2015-04-21 Thread Stefan Bader
Ah, that now makes sense. And since I could reach and search the older git trees today I found that we had only one SAUCE patch to vesafb in Saucy/13.10. Which was a combination of previous patches but titled as modularization patch. So having vesafb as a module was special and since Trusty/14.04 w

[Bug 1434581] Re: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for certified servers with Matrox G200er2 or similar

2015-04-20 Thread Mike Jester
I added the change from the SAUCE patch in May of 2011 to 3.13.0-48 and rebuilt. It fixes the problem. -static int mtrr __read_mostly; /* disable mtrr */ +static int mtrr __read_mostly = 3; /* disable mtrr */ I've attached the kernel, 3-13.0-48.80+testfb. ** Attachmen

[Bug 1434581] Re: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for certified servers with Matrox G200er2 or similar

2015-04-20 Thread Mike Jester
Both of your finds are interesting considering the vesafb SAUCE patches seem to be making a change to mtrr. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2011-May/015600.html https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2013-March/027111.html -- You received this bug notification because you a

[Bug 1434581] Re: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for certified servers with Matrox G200er2 or similar

2015-04-20 Thread Stefan Bader
Hm, interesting. When booting with 3.11 from Saucy, scrolling seems quicker (my interactivity local is buggered by a keyboard monitor switch which some day I should replace), at least I could not really read what scrolled by while I could with 3.13. And looking at /proc/mtrr I found a write-combini

[Bug 1434581] Re: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for certified servers with Matrox G200er2 or similar

2015-04-20 Thread Stefan Bader
So at least I can confirm that a boot with 3.13 and vesafb set to 1280x1024 by grub (the default otherwise was 640x480) scrolls by quite slowly. I need to get a pre-3.12 there to get to see the before state. Looking at the code in 3.13, I see only one change to vesafb that came related to introduc

[Bug 1434581] Re: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for certified servers with Matrox G200er2 or similar

2015-04-20 Thread Mike Jester
3.11.x and earlier versions from mainline give me no display -- just a black screen on boot. The system does work, and I posted a dmesg from that boot earlier (dmesg110.txt is the name of the file.) So there's definitely some sort of SAUCE patch or patches that make vesafb work with those kernels,

[Bug 1434581] Re: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for certified servers with Matrox G200er2 or similar

2015-04-20 Thread Stefan Bader
I think he was guessing that there might be additional patches, but if you tried the mainline builds for 3.11.x we can rule that out. The mainline builds are without any special driver patches for that reason. It looks like some kind of regression in vesafb (either due to changing that or someth

[Bug 1434581] Re: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for certified servers with Matrox G200er2 or similar

2015-04-20 Thread Mike Jester
3.11.0-12 does not have the bug, while 3.12.0-1 with SYSFB=n does. It looks like 3.12 is when simplefb was implemented (as you noted in a previous post) and when vesafb was integrated. Based on Joseph Salisbury's comment #24 above noting that the older Ubuntu kernels had SAUCE patches to make vesa

[Bug 1434581] Re: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for certified servers with Matrox G200er2 or similar

2015-04-18 Thread Mike Jester
Thanks, that'll help if your host has the G200 based IPMI card. Mainline kernels before 3.13 don't work at all, and the versions of 3.13 built with SYSFB=y are fine while the ones with SYSFB=n are not. Comments 15 and 19. I downloaded the source for 3.11.0-12, 3.12.0-1 and 3.13.0-1 from (https://

[Bug 1434581] Re: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for certified servers with Matrox G200er2 or similar

2015-04-18 Thread Stefan Bader
Ok, I try whether I can see a similar regression on a host I got at home when I get there. If that does not work or if you want to try out beforehand, http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/ has a number of builds between so you might try 3.12 (with simplefb blacklisted) to get a closer rang

[Bug 1434581] Re: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for certified servers with Matrox G200er2 or similar

2015-04-17 Thread Mike Jester
Yep, one machine, three kernels. I didn't have /etc/default/openipmi since I don't have the openipmi package installed. I tried installing it and flipping those off, also I tried blacklisting ipmi_si and ipmi_devintf. Unfortunately, there was no change. I can install and post logs for just about

[Bug 1434581] Re: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for certified servers with Matrox G200er2 or similar

2015-04-17 Thread Stefan Bader
No kernel change. Basically changes to /etc/default/grub are used when running update-grub to create the grub configuration. Leaving GRUB_TERM=console commented out causes grub to initialize some higher resolution graphics framebuffer mode. And (not quite sure) it might be that about some point in

[Bug 1434581] Re: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for certified servers with Matrox G200er2 or similar

2015-04-17 Thread Mike Jester
** Attachment added: "[Correction] dmesg - Ubuntu 12.04 kernel v3.13.0-49 SYSFB=y" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/trusty/+source/linux/+bug/1434581/+attachment/4378621/+files/dmesg%201204%20313%20sysfby.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, whi

[Bug 1434581] Re: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for certified servers with Matrox G200er2 or similar

2015-04-17 Thread Mike Jester
** Attachment added: "dmesg - Ubuntu 12.04 kernel v3.13.0-49 SYSFB=y" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/trusty/+source/linux/+bug/1434581/+attachment/4378618/+files/fb1204313sysfby.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu

[Bug 1434581] Re: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for certified servers with Matrox G200er2 or similar

2015-04-17 Thread Mike Jester
** Attachment added: "dmesg - Ubuntu 12.04 Kernel v3.13.0-48 SYSFB=n" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/trusty/+source/linux/+bug/1434581/+attachment/4378600/+files/dmesg%201204%20313%20sysfbn.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscrib

[Bug 1434581] Re: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for certified servers with Matrox G200er2 or similar

2015-04-17 Thread Mike Jester
** Attachment added: "dmesg - Ubuntu 12.04 Kernel v3.2" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/trusty/+source/linux/+bug/1434581/+attachment/4378599/+files/dmesg%201204%2032.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bu

[Bug 1434581] Re: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for certified servers with Matrox G200er2 or similar

2015-04-17 Thread Mike Jester
Understood. I agree that not completely breaking virtual machines in some hypervisors is important. While I'm required to use bare-metal installs on these systems, I depend on VMs as much as the next person. There has to be an alternate solution. Are you suggesting there's a kernel change needed t

[Bug 1434581] Re: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for certified servers with Matrox G200er2 or similar

2015-04-17 Thread Stefan Bader
SYSFB/simpleframebuffer did not exist before 3.12 (iirc). When having CONFIG_X86_SYSFB=N there is no way to force it since it does not get built (as before). And given the other issues I do not think we should. The difference with vesafb is not necessarily in code (and as that has been around for

[Bug 1434581] Re: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for certified servers with Matrox G200er2 or similar

2015-04-17 Thread Mike Jester
That's correct, the VESA framebuffer (vesafb) is what I saw on lsmod on older kernels. I can do any other testing you'd like with different kernels or versions of Ubuntu as the system I'm doing this on is purely test. Pre-setting the desired resolution results in a slow console and setting GRUB_TER

[Bug 1434581] Re: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for certified servers with Matrox G200er2 or similar

2015-04-17 Thread Stefan Bader
I would have to do more testing, but it does not look like the simple framebuffer driver ever got fixed to release the memory resource and so, as soon as we turn on that, we will have the old issue of VMs (using cirrus default gfx) coming up with no graphical console at all. That said, the simpl

[Bug 1434581] Re: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for certified servers with Matrox G200er2 or similar

2015-03-26 Thread Mike Jester
I built 3.13.0-48.80 with CONFIG_X86_SYSFB=y since it was set to n in 3.13.0-7.24. This resolves the issue. I can upload the built kernel if necessary. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/143

[Bug 1434581] Re: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for certified servers with Matrox G200er2 or similar

2015-03-24 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
** Tags added: latest-bios-2.3.3 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1434581 Title: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for certified servers with Matrox G200er2 or simila

[Bug 1434581] Re: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for certified servers with Matrox G200er2 or similar

2015-03-24 Thread Mike Jester
3.13.0-1 that you linked does not have the bug. 3.13.0-6.23 does not have it: https://launchpad.net/~canonical-kernel- team/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+build/5537054 3.13.0-7.24 appears to be a failed build, but maybe one of the commits is related: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/3.13.0-7.24/

[Bug 1434581] Re: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for certified servers with Matrox G200er2 or similar

2015-03-24 Thread Joseph Salisbury
Vesafb was a module in the 3.11 and older kernels. It is now built into the kernel, which is why that file does not exist. There some vesa specific SAUCE patches in Ubuntu that are not upstream, so that may be why the upstream kernels don't work. We could bisect between the Ubuntu kernels instea

[Bug 1434581] Re: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for certified servers with Matrox G200er2 or similar

2015-03-24 Thread Mike Jester
I tested more mainline kernels: 3.2.0 through 3.10.0. The corresponding Ubuntu kernels (ex: lts-quantal 3.5.0-54 vs mainline 3.5.0) work properly. The ones from mainline all black screen. If I go to / and do find . -name vesafb.ko only the Ubuntu kernels from 3.11 and earlier have the file. Was t

[Bug 1434581] Re: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for certified servers with Matrox G200er2 or similar

2015-03-24 Thread Mike Jester
** Attachment added: "dmesg12rc1.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1434581/+attachment/4354502/+files/dmesg12rc1.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1434581 T

[Bug 1434581] Re: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for certified servers with Matrox G200er2 or similar

2015-03-24 Thread Mike Jester
** Attachment added: "dmesg120.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1434581/+attachment/4354501/+files/dmesg120.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1434581 Title

[Bug 1434581] Re: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for certified servers with Matrox G200er2 or similar

2015-03-24 Thread Mike Jester
** Attachment added: "dmesg110.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1434581/+attachment/4354500/+files/dmesg110.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1434581 Title

[Bug 1434581] Re: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for certified servers with Matrox G200er2 or similar

2015-03-24 Thread Mike Jester
I tried more kernels this morning, and unfortunately my results weren't so good. All of the v3.12-rc# kernels, v3.11.0 and v3.11.10.15 give me a black screen. The system does boot and function, but I am blind. I'm attaching the dmesg from v3.12.0, v3.12-rc1 and v3.11.0. The last versions of 3.8 (

[Bug 1434581] Re: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for certified servers with Matrox G200er2 or similar

2015-03-24 Thread Mike Jester
Chris, the output is: 2.3.3 07/10/2014 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1434581 Title: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for certified servers with Matrox G200er2 or

[Bug 1434581] Re: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for certified servers with Matrox G200er2 or similar

2015-03-23 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Mike Jester, could you please provide the output of the following terminal command: sudo dmidecode -s bios-version && sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Incomplete ** Tags added: kernel-bug-exists-upstream kernel-bug-exists- upstream-4.0

[Bug 1434581] Re: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for certified servers with Matrox G200er2 or similar

2015-03-23 Thread Joseph Salisbury
Can you test the following two Upstream kernels: v3.11 final: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.11-saucy/ v3.12-rc1: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.12-rc1-saucy/ We can bisect between these two versions if 3.11 final is good and v3.12-rc1 had the bug. ** Tags a

[Bug 1434581] Re: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for certified servers with Matrox G200er2 or similar

2015-03-23 Thread Mike Jester
In an attempt to narrow it down, I downloaded some more kernels from mainline to test. I reloaded the machine with 12.04 and tried 3.11.0-26 (via linux-generic-lts-saucy meta) and 3.12.0 from the mainline repository. 3.12.0 is slow like 3.13 and 3.11.0-26 performs fine as noted in the original rep

[Bug 1434581] Re: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for certified servers with Matrox G200er2 or similar

2015-03-23 Thread Joseph Salisbury
** Tags added: needs-bisect -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1434581 Title: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for certified servers with Matrox G200er2 or similar To

[Bug 1434581] Re: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for certified servers with Matrox G200er2 or similar

2015-03-23 Thread Mike Jester
I updated the BIOS to 2.3.3, and I used kernel 4.0-rc5 that was posted this morning. No change. Running dpkg -l is still a slideshow. I removed the bios-outdated tag, let me know if I need to do another collect. ** Tags removed: bios-outdated-2.3.3 -- You received this bug notification because

[Bug 1434581] Re: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for certified servers with Matrox G200er2 or similar

2015-03-20 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
** Tags added: bios-outdated-2.3.3 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1434581 Title: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for certified servers with Matrox G200er2 or simi

[Bug 1434581] Re: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for certified servers with Matrox G200er2 or similar

2015-03-20 Thread Mike Jester
I can do that on Monday when I'm back in the office no problem. This is a test machine so I can do just about anything with it. Thanks! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1434581 Title: C

[Bug 1434581] Re: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for certified servers with Matrox G200er2 or similar

2015-03-20 Thread Joseph Salisbury
Would it be possible for you to test the latest upstream kernel? Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Please test the latest v4.0 kernel[0]. If this bug is fixed in the mainline kernel, please add the following tag 'kernel-fixed-upstream'. If the mainline kernel does not fix th

[Bug 1434581] Re: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for certified servers with Matrox G200er2 or similar

2015-03-20 Thread Mike Jester
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1434581 Title: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for certified s

[Bug 1434581] Re: Console extremely slow with 3.13 and newer kernels for certified servers with Matrox G200er2 or similar

2015-03-20 Thread Mike Jester
apport information ** Tags added: apport-collected trusty ** Description changed: When I first came across this issue I thought it was the same as bug #1316035 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg- server/+bug/1316035), but this bug seems to be about X and it is reporting xorg