Thank you, I can confirm that your change fixes the problem. -Andrew On 5/30/17, 11:17 AM, "Sinclair Yeh" <syeh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >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=324722b1e1582d45e865dc >d2233a17edcfbd1638 > >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 ÿ淸º{.nÇ+돴윯돪†+%듚ÿ깁負¥Šwÿº{.nÇ+돴¥Š{깰鍼zÿâ왲^n‡r⊆¦zË곷h솳鈺Ú&｛àz요z받쀺+€Ê+zf＂·hš닱~넮녬iÿÿï곴ÿ묎çz_溫æj:+v돣þ)山øm
