On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 13:19 -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Emanuele Rocca <ema@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 22:08:40 +0200 > > > * David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, [2007-04-16 12:53 -0700]: > > > From: Emanuele Rocca <ema@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 21:49:58 +0200 > > > > > > > Exactly, blank screen after 'Booting Linux...'. > > > > > > I have no idea what's going wrong then, and this kind of > > > but I can't really work on without physical access to > > > the system sorry. I really need to be in front of the > > > computer having this issue and do a lot of test boots > > > and debug statment frobbing to try and figure it out. > > > > Want to come to Italy? :-) > > > > BTW, we had reports from Debian users that ran into this bug also on > > ultra10, and I guess every machine with a Creator 3D card is affected. > > > > Nothing critical, though, given that with atyfb:off everything works > > properly. > > So the source of the problem is that there is a creatorFB > card and an atyfb in the same machine? > > Probably you have a screen showing on the creatorFB :-) Yep. Absolutely. Aurora's got this patch in it, to have the old behavior on FB ordering, since people expect it. ~spot
--- linux-2.6.16.sparc64/drivers/video/Makefile.BAD 2006-06-03 12:17:07.000000000 -0400 +++ linux-2.6.16.sparc64/drivers/video/Makefile 2006-06-03 12:19:09.000000000 -0400 @@ -31,9 +31,6 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_FB_MATROX) += matrox/ obj-$(CONFIG_FB_RIVA) += riva/ vgastate.o obj-$(CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA) += nvidia/ -obj-$(CONFIG_FB_ATY) += aty/ macmodes.o -obj-$(CONFIG_FB_ATY128) += aty/ macmodes.o -obj-$(CONFIG_FB_RADEON) += aty/ obj-$(CONFIG_FB_SIS) += sis/ obj-$(CONFIG_FB_KYRO) += kyro/ obj-$(CONFIG_FB_SAVAGE) += savage/ @@ -60,6 +57,9 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_FB_P9100) += p9100.o sbuslib.o obj-$(CONFIG_FB_TCX) += tcx.o sbuslib.o obj-$(CONFIG_FB_LEO) += leo.o sbuslib.o +obj-$(CONFIG_FB_ATY) += aty/ macmodes.o +obj-$(CONFIG_FB_ATY128) += aty/ macmodes.o +obj-$(CONFIG_FB_RADEON) += aty/ obj-$(CONFIG_FB_SGIVW) += sgivwfb.o obj-$(CONFIG_FB_ACORN) += acornfb.o obj-$(CONFIG_FB_ATARI) += atafb.o
