https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=222174 ------- Comment #12 from Wojciech.Szenajch@bull.com.pl 2006-11-30 04:20 MST ------- Answers: Comment #11: BIOS is the latest available from Dell. In case of vga= option - sorry - please check my files once again: xen kernel is called with suggested options. I removed as many things as it was possible at the time i could spend on this subject and I also changed testing method to more efficient. i2c_* and ipw3945 stayed but they are not used according to lsmod. New testing method for default and xen kernels: set id:1:initdefault: in /etc/inittab and (re)boot desired kernel collected files: boot.msg and lsmod.s1-* tests with Bfile sized about 600MB (enough for my 2GM of RAM). gzip Bfile guzip Bfile next manually: /etc/rc.d/xdm start collected files: lsmod.s1x-* this loads two additional drivers (for xen collected without running gzip in another boot session):
i915 28160 2 drm 94504 3 i915
For default kernel X11 starts and works without any problems but for xen the kdm login screen is distorted by vertical lines and PC hangs without possibility to login from kdm. I made additional tests by starting xdm without gzip tests from the console. I repeated gzip Bfile from kde shell-console. For default kernel everything was OK. For xen I got wonderful "RAM graphical monitor" with changing dots and patterns. Finally PC hanged. You may speed up this hang if you "clean" distorted area i.e. by moving terminal window on it to make it refreshed by X11. It seems that xen kernel together with or i915/drm incorrectly allocates/uses RAM used by operating system for other purposes. Because RAM is overwritten by graphical card and operating system together everything hangs randomly without any system message. During my past tests with SuSE10.2 (with resolution 1280x1024 instead of 1680x1050) I got sum command core dumped after several usages or even the following error was reported in another boot session: sum: SUSE-Linux-10.1-GM-DVD-i386.iso: Input/output error after several repetitions of the same: sum SUSE-Linux-10.1-GM-DVD-i386.iso command. System with lower resolution was more resistant because probably less RAM was allocated to video card or/and it was done differently. For requested files see the following attachment. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.