2013/5/10 Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>: > On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Fabio Coatti <fabio.coatti at gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi Daniel, >> I'm contacting you as you are listed as i915 maintainer for linux >> kernel and I'm not sure if it is ok to write in mailing lists for this >> small issue. > > _Always_ cc a mailing list, since your maintainer tends to be busy. > _Especially_ for small stuff. > Thanks for the hint, will do :) >> Weird thing, on a different hardware but same family (i5,HD3000) all >> works just fine with same kernel options and this command line: > > That's not the same family, but a different product generation ;-) > ouch. >> console=tty1 fbcon=map:0 i915.modeset=1 >> >> Of course I'm not asking you to help debugging my installation, But >> can you point me to some link, hint or whatever useful in order to >> look better at this issue? > > Sounds like the fbcon mode selection gets something wrong which X gets > right. Please retest on the latest upstream kernel and if that still > fails please boot with drm.debug=0xe (and no other parameter added) > and file a bug report on bugs.freedesktop.org against dri -> drm > (intel) with the complete dmesg attached. OK, tested with 3.9.1 and it fails. Bug report underway, as suggested. Many thanks for the quick and useful answer! -- Fabio