Hi, Please apply this patch to your tree. This patch is queue for our next pull request. https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/vmwgfx/commit/?id=324722b1e1582d45e865dcd2233a17edcfbd1638 Sinclair ________________________________________ From: Boyer, Andrew <Andrew.Boyer@xxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2017 5:43 AM To: linux-fbdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Sinclair Yeh Subject: [bug report] drm/vmwgfx: Cursor not visible in VMware in 4.11+ kernel Hello linux-fbdev, My apologies if this is misdirected. vmwgfx appears to be unhappy on my systems with kernels newer than the v4.11 tag. These are CentOS7 VMs running under ESXi 6.5. I¹m viewing them with the VMware Fusion remote console on a Mac. The problem is that the cursor is either invisible or a very small circle. There are repeated messages like this in the log: [316850.789932] [drm:vmw_kms_fb_create [vmwgfx]] *ERROR* failed to create vmw_framebuffer: -22 [316850.795899] [drm:vmw_kms_new_framebuffer [vmwgfx]] *ERROR* Invalid surface format for requested mode. [316850.802550] [drm:vmw_kms_fb_create [vmwgfx]] *ERROR* failed to create vmw_framebuffer: -22 [316850.832484] [drm:vmw_kms_new_framebuffer [vmwgfx]] *ERROR* Invalid surface format for requested mode. [316850.841144] [drm:vmw_kms_fb_create [vmwgfx]] *ERROR* failed to create vmw_framebuffer: -22 [316850.924657] [drm:vmw_kms_new_framebuffer [vmwgfx]] *ERROR* Invalid surface format for requested mode. [316850.932364] [drm:vmw_kms_fb_create [vmwgfx]] *ERROR* failed to create vmw_framebuffer: -22 [316851.690965] [drm:vmw_kms_new_framebuffer [vmwgfx]] *ERROR* Invalid surface format for requested mode. [316851.697526] [drm:vmw_kms_fb_create [vmwgfx]] *ERROR* failed to create vmw_framebuffer: -22 [316851.710114] [drm:vmw_kms_new_framebuffer [vmwgfx]] *ERROR* Invalid surface format for requested mode. [316851.716641] [drm:vmw_kms_fb_create [vmwgfx]] *ERROR* failed to create vmw_framebuffer: -22 [316853.489526] [drm:vmw_kms_new_framebuffer [vmwgfx]] *ERROR* Invalid surface format for requested mode. [316853.498164] [drm:vmw_kms_fb_create [vmwgfx]] *ERROR* failed to create vmw_framebuffer: -22 [316853.813480] [drm:vmw_kms_new_framebuffer [vmwgfx]] *ERROR* Invalid surface format for requested mode. [316853.821187] [drm:vmw_kms_fb_create [vmwgfx]] *ERROR* failed to create vmw_framebuffer: -22 [316854.054016] [drm:vmw_kms_new_framebuffer [vmwgfx]] *ERROR* Invalid surface format for requested mode. The problems disappear if I revert back to the 4.11 kernel. There are no changes in my kernel that would affect this (only SCSI and RDMA stuff). I don¹t know anything at all about graphics driver development, so I¹m not sure where else to go. None of the recent commits to driver/gpu/drm/vmwgfx look suspicious to me. Thank you, Andrew P.S. From the log: [ 2.014419] [drm] DMA map mode: Using physical TTM page addresses. [ 2.014694] [drm] Capabilities: [ 2.014698] [drm] Rect copy. [ 2.014700] [drm] Cursor. [ 2.014702] [drm] Cursor bypass. [ 2.014704] [drm] Cursor bypass 2. [ 2.014705] [drm] 8bit emulation. [ 2.014707] [drm] Alpha cursor. [ 2.014709] [drm] Extended Fifo. [ 2.014711] [drm] Multimon. [ 2.014712] [drm] Pitchlock. [ 2.014714] [drm] Irq mask. [ 2.014716] [drm] Display Topology. [ 2.014718] [drm] GMR. [ 2.014720] [drm] Traces. [ 2.014721] [drm] GMR2. [ 2.014723] [drm] Screen Object 2. [ 2.014724] [drm] Command Buffers. [ 2.014724] [drm] Command Buffers 2. [ 2.014724] [drm] Guest Backed Resources. [ 2.014725] [drm] DX Features. [ 2.014725] [drm] Max GMR ids is 64 [ 2.014726] [drm] Max number of GMR pages is 65536 [ 2.014782] [drm] Max dedicated hypervisor surface memory is 0 kiB [ 2.014782] [drm] Maximum display memory size is 16384 kiB [ 2.014782] [drm] VRAM at 0xe8000000 size is 4096 kiB [ 2.014784] [drm] MMIO at 0xfe000000 size is 256 kiB [ 2.014787] [drm] global init. [ 2.014858] [TTM] Zone kernel: Available graphics memory: 3956522 kiB [ 2.014861] [TTM] Zone dma32: Available graphics memory: 2097152 kiB [ 2.014863] [TTM] Initializing pool allocator [ 2.014870] [TTM] Initializing DMA pool allocator [ 2.015212] [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 2 (21.10.2013). [ 2.015215] [drm] No driver support for vblank timestamp query. [ 2.015586] [drm] Screen Target Display device initialized [ 2.015661] [drm] width 800 [ 2.015681] [drm] height 480 [ 2.015700] [drm] bpp 32 [ 2.016726] vmxnet3 0000:13:00.0 eth1: NIC Link is Up 10000 Mbps [ 2.017006] [drm] Fifo max 0x00040000 min 0x00001000 cap 0x0000077f [ 2.018019] [drm] Using command buffers with DMA pool. [ 2.018031] [drm] DX: no. [ 2.018033] [drm] Atomic: yes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fbdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
