Comment # 22 on bug 1018353 from Richard Bos

(In reply to Patrik Jakobsson from comment #21)
> Hi, I've been trying to reproduce this on the gma500 machines I have
> available but they all hang at various points (not necessarily gfx related).
> Also, they're all 32bit machines which make things difficult.

Great.  Very much appreciated.

> What seems to be happening is that gma500 fails at some point and when
> restoring back to fb console it also fails, hence no textmode fallback.
> 
> Can you boot with drm.debug=0x3f and then look at dmesg. That would give us
> more information. I'll continue trying to get something up and running on
> these machines to see if I can pinpoint the first failure.

dmesg attached.  Be aware that there is no video/display.  I can only
check what dmesg states, when it is saved and read in another running system.

> Btw, do you only have a single VGA monitor attached to the machine and no
> LVDS-panel at all?

There is only a VGA monitor.  I've no idea how to attach an LVDS panel at all.

I'll attach dmest in the next updated.