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<body class='hmmessage'><div style="text-align: left;">Here is everything that you had asked for:<br><br>> Step 1 is to try a kernel from GIT HEAD.<br>Kernel: 2.6.25-rc5<br><br>> Step 2 is to send us the complete dmesg output. What BIOS are you using?<br>See the attached file: dmesg_lx.txt<br>I am using General Software BIOS<br><br>> Step 3 is to send us the fbset information from a broken system<br>open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory<br><br></div>> Step 4 is to tell us what your monitor thinks it is driving (there is usually a information button that says what the current xres yres and refresh is).Kushal Koolwal<br>HFreq:48.5<br>VFreq: 60.3<br>Pixel Clock:65.2<br>Resolution:1024x768<br>Monitor:ViewSonic VE510b<br><br>> Step 5 is to compile up the the MSR tools from hpa <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/cpu/msr-tools/" target="_blank">http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/cpu/msr-tools/</a><br>> And connect via serial or net to the system when it is broken and<br>> send the value of MSR 0x4C000015.<br>debian :~# rdmsr 0x4C000015<br>421402000000<br>debian :~# <br><br>
<pre>>Step 6 is to send the complete output of<br>>/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.1/resource<br>debian:~# cat /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.1/resource<br>0x00000000e0000000 0x00000000e1ffffff 0x0000000000020200<br>0x00000000e2000000 0x00000000e2003fff 0x0000000000020200<br>0x00000000e2004000 0x00000000e2007fff 0x0000000000020200<br>0x00000000e2008000 0x00000000e200bfff 0x0000000000020200<br>0x00000000e200c000 0x00000000e200ffff 0x0000000000020200<br>0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000<br>0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000002<br><br><br>>It sounds like your BIOS is horribly misconfigured.<br>That might be true however the same configuration (BIOS and Hardware) works fine on a 2.6.22 kernel.<br>Also the problem of "/dev/fb0 not present" kicked in when I used the GIT kernel (2.6.26-rc5 release). <br>If I use the stable 2.6.25 from kernel.org, I do get those green lines (during boot) and the device /dev/fb0 is present.<br><br>Not sure what is going wrong.<br><br>Kushal<br><br></pre>I do blog at http://blogs.koolwal.net/<br><br><br><br>______________________<br><table style="height: 24px; font-family: 'Segoe UI',Tahoma,san-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(0, 153, 204);"><tbody><tr><td><a href="http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Home/?source=EML_WLHM_GreaterGood" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 153, 102); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;"><img style="border-style: none;" src="http://gfx1.hotmail.com/mail/w2/ltr/i_charity.gif" alt="i'm"></a> EMAILING FOR THE GREATER GOOD</td></tr></tbody></table><br><br><hr id="stopSpelling">> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:05:12 -0600<br>> From: jordan.crouse@amd.com<br>> To: kushalkoolwal@hotmail.com<br>> CC: mart.raudsepp@artecdesign.ee; linux-geode@bombadil.infradead.org<br>> Subject: Re: Geode lxfb framebuffer not working<br>> <br>> On 12/06/08 14:46 -0700, Kushal Koolwal wrote:<br>> > > Step 1 is to try a kernel from GIT HEAD.<br>> > I followed the instructions at http://linux.yyz.us/git-howto.html and downloaded the GIT repository.<br>> > <br>> > The kernel version that I got was 2.6.26-rc5<br>> > <br>> > The problem with this was that lxfb did not find /dev/fb0 device and hence I was not sure if you still want the outputs that you had asked for.<br>> > <br>> > Here is what the dmesg said:<br>> > [ 0.000000] Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda1 ro video=lxfb:1024x768-32@60<br>> > [ 0.173548] lxfb 0000:00:01.1: 16 KB of video memory at 0xe0000000<br>> <br>> There's your problem right there. 16KB is just flat out not enough video<br>> memory for any video mode. It sounds like your BIOS is horribly<br>> misconfigured.<br>> <br>> > [ 0.173679] lxfb 0000:00:01.1: could not find valid video mode<br>> <br>> This is because none of the modes we support even come close to fitting<br>> in 16Kb.<br>> <br>> > If would still like the full outputs of dmesg, fbset, msr-tool, sys/device/*, etc for this kernel I will attach it. If I did not used the kernel that you were expected then please let me know which kernel I should try.<br>> <br>> We definately need the pci resource list. And what BIOS are you using?<br>> <br>> Jordan<br>> <br></body>
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