HP FireGL-UX card (A7789-60510) on an HP Visualize C3700 workstation.
Debian SID, Kernel 4.19-rc3 (kernel.org)
Card recognised during POST/IPL (640x480) and during initial Linux boot,
but on loading GXT4500 Framebuffer module, the signal vanishes, with no
errors shown...
# modprobe gxt4500
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 160x64
fb0: IBM GXT6000P frame buffer device
< display blanks - lost signal >
LSPCI output:
04:02.0 VGA compatible controller: IBM GXT6000P Graphics Adapter (rev
02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Diamond Multimedia Systems Fire GL3
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 255, IRQ 26
Memory at fffffffff7000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
Memory at fffffffff8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64M]
Expansion ROM at fffffffff7040000 [disabled] [size=256K]
Kernel driver in use: gxt4500
Kernel modules: gxt4500
I cannot find any specific references to this problem, so far..
Thanks.
Robert Gadsdon.