On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 06:39:45 -0800 (PST) Zwane Mwaikambo <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > > It's not an X problem - the screen is black immediately upon loading the
> > > kernel.
> > >
> > > But I guess you knew that and you're just after display info:
> > > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/Xorg.0.log.txt
> >
> > Thanks, the X log told me your VBE version. I tried to reproduce it on my
> > thinkpad which seems to have a very similar video setup to no avail, Could
> > you test the following on the VAIO? If this isn't the case, i suspect i'm
> > corrupting your modelist.
>
> It's still all black.
Ok it looks like i was corrupting the modelist. The following should take
care of your VAIO, but i haven't tested the failure case as Tobias is away
this weekend.
Index: linux-2.6.20-mm1/arch/i386/boot/video.S
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvsroot/linux-2.6.20-mm1/arch/i386/boot/video.S,v
retrieving revision 1.1.1.1
diff -u -p -B -r1.1.1.1 video.S
--- linux-2.6.20-mm1/arch/i386/boot/video.S 15 Feb 2007 17:35:57 -0000 1.1.1.1
+++ linux-2.6.20-mm1/arch/i386/boot/video.S 17 Feb 2007 08:29:11 -0000
@@ -571,6 +571,16 @@ setr1: lodsw
jmp _m_s
check_vesa:
+#ifdef CONFIG_FIRMWARE_EDID
+ leaw modelist+1024, %di
+ movw $0x4f00, %ax
+ int $0x10
+ cmpw $0x004f, %ax
+ jnz setbad
+
+ movw 4(%di), %ax
+ movw %ax, vbe_version
+#endif
leaw modelist+1024, %di
subb $VIDEO_FIRST_VESA>>8, %bh
movw %bx, %cx # Get mode information structure
@@ -1945,6 +1955,9 @@ store_edid:
rep
stosl
+ cmpw $0x0200, vbe_version # only do EDID on >= VBE2.0
+ jl no_edid
+
pushw %es # save ES
xorw %di, %di # Report Capability
pushw %di
@@ -1987,6 +2000,7 @@ do_restore: .byte 0 # Screen contents al
svga_prefix: .byte VIDEO_FIRST_BIOS>>8 # Default prefix for BIOS modes
graphic_mode: .byte 0 # Graphic mode with a linear frame buffer
dac_size: .byte 6 # DAC bit depth
+vbe_version: .word 0 # VBE bios version
# Status messages
keymsg: .ascii "Press <RETURN> to see video modes available, "
Index: linux-2.6.20-mm1/arch/x86_64/boot/video.S
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvsroot/linux-2.6.20-mm1/arch/x86_64/boot/video.S,v
retrieving revision 1.1.1.1
diff -u -p -B -r1.1.1.1 video.S
--- linux-2.6.20-mm1/arch/x86_64/boot/video.S 15 Feb 2007 17:36:18 -0000 1.1.1.1
+++ linux-2.6.20-mm1/arch/x86_64/boot/video.S 17 Feb 2007 08:29:11 -0000
@@ -571,6 +571,16 @@ setr1: lodsw
jmp _m_s
check_vesa:
+#ifdef CONFIG_FIRMWARE_EDID
+ leaw modelist+1024, %di
+ movw $0x4f00, %ax
+ int $0x10
+ cmpw $0x004f, %ax
+ jnz setbad
+
+ movw 4(%di), %ax
+ movw %ax, vbe_version
+#endif
leaw modelist+1024, %di
subb $VIDEO_FIRST_VESA>>8, %bh
movw %bx, %cx # Get mode information structure
@@ -1945,6 +1955,9 @@ store_edid:
rep
stosl
+ cmpw $0x0200, vbe_version # only do EDID on >= VBE2.0
+ jl no_edid
+
pushw %es # save ES
xorw %di, %di # Report Capability
pushw %di
@@ -1987,6 +2000,7 @@ do_restore: .byte 0 # Screen contents al
svga_prefix: .byte VIDEO_FIRST_BIOS>>8 # Default prefix for BIOS modes
graphic_mode: .byte 0 # Graphic mode with a linear frame buffer
dac_size: .byte 6 # DAC bit depth
+vbe_version: .word 0 # VBE bios version
# Status messages
keymsg: .ascii "Press <RETURN> to see video modes available, "
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