Bug 79226 – 2.6.10 doesn't initialise ATYFB like previous versions do

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Mark Clegg 2005-01-23 09:01:53 UTC]

On an Ultra 5 with ATYFB, 2.6.10 is initialising the video with csync inverted. 

On power up the sequence is...

OpenPROM appears,
SILO prompt appears,
Kernel is loaded,
Screen goes blank and powers down

Assuming a normal boot is occurring behind the scenes, waiting a few minutes for boot to complete, and then logging in (blindly) and issuing an 

fbset csync high

restores the picture (although at 640x480).

The forums at http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=2010535 have more info. Infact it may be that arch's other than sparc are affected.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install 2.6.10
2.Boot
3.

Actual Results:  
Screen goes blank and powers down 

Expected Results:  
let me see it booting. 

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=2010535 
 
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77495 may be related...

[Comment 1 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) 2005-01-24 03:42:25 UTC]

Jeremy any ideas?

Mark, are you able to test 2.6.11-rc2?

[Comment 2 Mark Clegg 2005-01-26 09:23:28 UTC]

I can confirm that 2.6.11-rc2 does the same.

[Comment 3 Keith Landry 2005-02-19 10:28:50 UTC]

There is patch from patch-2.6.11-rc4-bk7 that applies cleanly to 2.6.10 and corrects this on my ultra-5:

http://www.kernel.org/diff/diffview.cgi?file=%2Fpub%2Flinux%2Fkernel%2Fv2.6%2Fsnapshots%2Fpatch-2.6.11-rc4-bk7.bz2;z=78

[Comment 4 Mark Clegg 2005-03-04 12:19:57 UTC]

This issue seems to be resolved in 2.6.11-gentoo-r1 

[Comment 5 Carlos Silva (RETIRED) 2005-03-14 12:18:32 UTC]

gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.11-r3 is now ~sparc, thanks.