Bug 471780 – =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.9.3 - Cannot start uvesafb.

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Hiroshi Takenaka 2013-05-30 07:08:45 UTC]

I have updated the kernel to 3.9.3.
After that uvesafb won't work.

dmesg says:
[    1.315046] Linux agpgart interface v0.103
[    1.316044] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: Intel 440BX Chipset
[    1.322202] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: AGP aperture is 256M @ 0x0
[    1.343049] v86d (790) used greatest stack depth: 6908 bytes left
[    6.352089] uvesafb: Getting VBE info block failed (eax=0x4f00, err=1)
[    6.352402] uvesafb: vbe_init() failed with -22
[    6.353367] uvesafb: probe of uvesafb.0 failed with error -22

In /var/log/messages:
May 26 16:52:47 Gentoo-PC kernel: [    2.668474] Linux agpgart interface v0.103
May 26 16:52:47 Gentoo-PC kernel: [    2.670460] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: Intel 440BX Chipset
May 26 16:52:47 Gentoo-PC kernel: [    2.678715] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: AGP aperture is 256M @ 0x0
May 26 16:52:47 Gentoo-PC kernel: [    2.708411] v86d (778) used greatest stack depth: 7024 bytes left
May 26 16:52:47 Gentoo-PC kernel: [    2.728387] uvesafb: VMware, Inc, VMware virtual machine, 2.0, OEM: V M ware, Inc. VBE support 2.0, VBE v2.0
May 26 16:52:47 Gentoo-PC kernel: [    2.839376] uvesafb: no monitor limits have been set, default refresh rate will be used
May 26 16:52:47 Gentoo-PC kernel: [    2.841328] uvesafb: VBE state buffer size cannot be determined (eax=0x0, err=0)
May 26 16:52:47 Gentoo-PC kernel: [    2.843233] uvesafb: scrolling: redraw
May 26 16:52:47 Gentoo-PC kernel: [    2.882195] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30
May 26 16:52:47 Gentoo-PC kernel: [    2.889174] uvesafb: framebuffer at 0xd0000000, mapped to 0xf0900000, using 24576k, total 32768k
May 26 16:52:47 Gentoo-PC kernel: [    2.890196] fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device

emerge -pqv sys-app/v86d is the following:
[ebuild   R   ] sys-apps/v86d-0.1.10  USE="-debug -x86emu" 

emerge --info is:
Portage 2.1.12.2 (default/linux/x86/13.0, gcc-4.7.3, glibc-2.17, 3.9.3-gentoo i686)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-3.9.3-gentoo-i686-Intel-R-_Celeron-R-_CPU_450_@_2.20GHz-with-gentoo-2.2
KiB Mem:      768452 total,     19640 free
KiB Swap:    1048572 total,   1031572 free
Timestamp of tree: Wed, 29 May 2013 09:15:01 +0000
ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.23.1
app-shells/bash:          4.2_p45
dev-lang/python:          2.7.4, 3.2.4, 3.3.2
dev-util/cmake:           2.8.10.2-r2
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.28
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.2
sys-apps/openrc:          0.11.8
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.6-r1
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.13, 2.69
sys-devel/automake:       1.11.6, 1.12.6, 1.13.2
sys-devel/binutils:       2.23.1
sys-devel/gcc:            4.7.3
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.8
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4.2
sys-devel/make:           3.82-r4
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.9 (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.17
Repositories: gentoo x-portage
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
FFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirrors.hoobly.com/"
LC_ALL="ja_JP.utf8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acl acpi alsa berkdb bzip2 cjk cli cracklib crypt cxx dri dvd fortran gdbm gpm gstreamer hal iconv modules mudflap ncurses nls nptl opengl openmp pam pcre readline session ssl tcpd unicode upcall x86 xfce zlib" ABI_X86="32" ALSA_CARDS="ens1371" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse vmmouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="ja" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_2" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18 ruby19" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vmware vga" XTABLES_ADDONS=="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON

[Comment 1 Tom Wijsman (TomWij) (RETIRED) 2013-05-30 07:45:16 UTC]

If you don't necessarily need 3.9 features, you could try the stabilized 3.8.13.

Also note that "Getting VBE info block failed" is a quite common error you can google solutions for; for instance, verify you have:

    # grep INITRAMFS_SOURCE /usr/src/linux/.config
    CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE="/usr/share/v86d/initramfs"

    # grep FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE /usr/src/linux/.config
    CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y

    # ls -l /sbin/v86d 
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 107128 Nov  7 16:36 /sbin/v86d

You may need to re-emerge the relevant packages against the new kernel; just to be safe, you should probably follow the wiki steps again:

http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Uvesafb

Please let us know whether any of this resolved this, thank you in advance.

[Comment 2 Hiroshi Takenaka 2013-05-30 11:54:14 UTC]

I could have started uvesafb by using kernel-3.8.13.
Thank you.