Hi John Am 07.11.19 um 14:12 schrieb John Donnelly: > Hi Thomas ; Thank you for reaching out. > > See inline: > >> On Nov 7, 2019, at 1:54 AM, Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Hi John, >> >> apparently the vgaarb was not the problem. >> >> Am 07.11.19 um 03:29 schrieb John Donnelly: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am investigating an issue where we lose video activity when the display is switched from from “text mode” to “graphic mode” >>> on a number of servers using this driver. Specifically starting the GNOME desktop. >> >> When you say "text mode", do you mean VGA text mode or the graphical >> console that emulates text mode? >> > > > I call “text mode” the 24x80 ascii mode ; - NOT GRAPHICS . Ie : run-level 3; So I guess your term for it is VGA. Yes. > > >> When you enable graphics mode, does it set the correct resolution? A lot >> of work went into memory management recently. I could imagine that the >> driver sets the correct resolution, but then fails to display the >> correct framebuffer. > > There is no display at all ; so there is no resolution to mention. > > > >> >> If possible, could you try to update to the latest drm-tip and attach >> the output of >> >> /sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/vram-mm > > I don’t see that file ; Is there something else I need to do ? That file is fairly new and maybe it's not in the mainline kernel yet. See below for how to get it. > > I’ve attached : var/lib/gdm/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log. ; instead ; Good! Looking through that log file, the card is found at line 79 and the generic X modesetting driver initializes below. That works as expected. I notices that several operations are not permitted (lines 78 and 87). I guess you're starting X from a regular user account? IIRC special permission is required to acquire control of the display. What happens if you start X as root user? > > > > > Here is my cmdline - I just tested 5.3.0 and it fails too ( my last test was 5.3.8 and it failed also ) . > > # cat /proc/cmdline > BOOT_IMAGE=(hd0,msdos1)/vmlinuz-5.3.0+ root=/dev/mapper/ol_ca--dev55-root ro crashkernel=auto resume=/dev/mapper/ol_ca--dev55-swap rd.lvm.lv=ol_ca-dev55/root rd.lvm.lv=ol_ca-dev55/swap console=ttyS0,9600,8,n,1 drm.debug=0xff > > When you say “tip”. - Are you referring to a specific kernel ? I can build a 5.4.0.rc6 ; The problem appears to have been introduced around 5.3 time frame. The latest and greatest DRM code is in the drm-tip branch at git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm-tip If you build this version you should find /sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/vram-mm on the device. You have to build with debugfs enabled and maybe have to mount debugfs at /sys/kernel/debug. > > >> >> before and after switching to graphics mode. The file lists the >> allocated regions of the VRAM. >> >>> >>> This adapter is Server Engines Integrated Remote Video Acceleration Subsystem (RVAS) and is used as remote console in iLO/DRAC environments. >>> >>> I don’t see any specific errors in the gdm logs or message file other than this: >> >> You can boot with drm.debug=0xff on the kernel command line to enable >> more warnings. >> >> >> Could you please attach the output of lspci -v for the VGA adapter? >> > > > Here is the output from the current machine; The previous addresses were from another model using the same SE device: > > > Nov 7 04:42:50 ca-dev55 kernel: mgag200 0000:3d:00.0: remove_conflicting_pci_framebuffers: bar 0: 0xc5000000 -> 0xc5ffffff > Nov 7 04:42:50 ca-dev55 kernel: mgag200 0000:3d:00.0: remove_conflicting_pci_framebuffers: bar 1: 0xc6810000 -> 0xc6813fff > Nov 7 04:42:50 ca-dev55 kernel: mgag200 0000:3d:00.0: remove_conflicting_pci_framebuffers: bar 2: 0xc6000000 -> 0xc67fffff > Nov 7 04:42:50 ca-dev55 kernel: mgag200 0000:3d:00.0: vgaarb: deactivate vga console > > > lspci -s 3d:00.0 -vvv -k > 3d:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Electronics Systems Ltd. MGA G200e [Pilot] ServerEngines (SEP1) (rev 05) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) > Subsystem: Oracle/SUN Device 4852 > Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr+ Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx- > Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- > Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes > Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16 > NUMA node: 0 > Region 0: Memory at c5000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] > Region 1: Memory at c6810000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] > Region 2: Memory at c6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8M] > Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] [size=128K] > Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2 > Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) > Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- > Capabilities: [e4] Express (v1) Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00 > DevCap: MaxPayload 256 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s <64ns, L1 <1us > ExtTag- AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE- FLReset- > DevCtl: Report errors: Correctable+ Non-Fatal+ Fatal+ Unsupported- > RlxdOrd- ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop- > MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 128 bytes > DevSta: CorrErr+ UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq+ AuxPwr- TransPend- > LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, ASPM L0s, Exit Latency L0s <64ns > ClockPM- Surprise- LLActRep- BwNot- ASPMOptComp- > LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- CommClk+ > ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt- > LnkSta: Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, TrErr- Train- SlotClk+ DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt- > Capabilities: [54] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit- > Address: 00000000 Data: 0000 > Kernel driver in use: mgag200 > Kernel modules: mgag200 Looks all normal. Best regards Thomas > > >> Best regards >> Thomas >> >>> >>> fb0: switching to mgag200drmfb from EFI VGA >>> mgag200 0000:04:00.0: vgaarb: deactivate vga console >>> fbcon: mgag200drmfb (fb0) is primary device >>> mgag200 0000:04:00.0: fb0: mgag200drmfb frame buffer device >>> [drm] Initialized mgag200 1.0.0 20110418 for 0000:04:00.0 on minor 0 >>> >>> The systems worked fine with 4.18 kernels and a recent Linux 5.2.18 ; The symptom first appears in 5.3.6. and onward. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> dri-devel mailing list >>> dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel >>> >> >> -- >> Thomas Zimmermann >> Graphics Driver Developer >> SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH >> Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany >> (HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg) >> Geschäftsführer: Felix Imendörffer >> > -- Thomas Zimmermann Graphics Driver Developer SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany (HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg) Geschäftsführer: Felix Imendörffer
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