Re: Can't even enter X after kernel 4.12

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Hi,

On 05-12-17 16:42, Chris Chiu wrote:
On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 6:40 AM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Chris,

On 30-11-17 07:27, Chris Chiu wrote:

Hi,
      I have a Intel cherry trail machine Haier HR101CW (CPU: x5-Z8350)
which used to work fine in kernel 4.11, fails to enter X after I
upgrade to kernel version later than 4.12. Even the latest 4.15, it
can't even enter X now. There's no panic, oops and even no obvious
error log. The panel backlight seems to be off but keyboard still
responds.

      Then I tried to do bisect, it tells me the commit
[b7ecf663c75eed1e764f57281f9508c49c18516e] ACPI / bus: Introduce a
list of ids for "always present" devices is the one which causes this.
After I revert this commit, the display back to normal.

      Maybe the DSDT file would help for your reference.
https://gist.github.com/mschiu77/e84687cc928ac644117baf05aef47f16


Hmm, Daniel Drake from Endless send me a Vios LTH17 machine which
has similar symptoms. If this is indeed the same issue then adding:
i915.fastboot=1 to the kernel commandline should fix this.

This is going to be the default for newer kernels soon-ish (4.16
I think), so we can use this as a workaround for now.

As for the commit you bisected this to, can you try just commenting
out the: "80862288" entry in always_present_ids in
drivers/acpi/x86/utils.c ? I think that is triggering the problem.

Without that entry we don't get backlight control, so if you
comment it you will likely not be able to control brightness,
so i915.fastboot=1 is a better fix, but it would be good to know
if commenting out just that entry fixes things (and breaks
brightness control).

Without i915.fastboot=1 the i915 driver quickly turns the
backlight off and on again at boot, which I guess is confusing
the LCD panel...

Regards,

Hans


Hmm...the i915.fastboot=1 seems not work on my Haier machine here.
However, comment out the: "80862288" entry in always_present_ids in
drivers/acpi/x86/utils.c do work. Do you need anything on this special
machine?

On the VIOS LTH17 I just need i915.fastboot=1 and then things work
(with a 4.14 kernel) the 80862288 entry in that table makes Linux bind
to the pwm controller in the Z8350, which is usually used for brightness
control.

Do you get a brightness slider in gnome3 with the 80862288 entry commented
out? And does it work ?

Regards,

Hans

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