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Message-ID: <CAGZ4FETGyatywWqx3vLo-=jSJsrSat2+r35Njg5NNJ4NnyUy=w@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:07:57 +0200 From: Maarten Maathuis <madman2003@...il.com> To: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com> Cc: Nick Bowler <nbowler@...iptictech.com>, Martin Peres <martin.peres@...ri.fr>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> Subject: Re: Linux 3.4-rc4 On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 12:37 AM, Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 11:33:50AM -0400, Nick Bowler wrote: >> On 2012-04-28 02:19 -0400, Alex Deucher wrote: >> > On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 8:39 PM, Nick Bowler <nbowler@...iptictech.com> wrote: >> > > Hi Ben, >> > > >> > > On 2012-04-27 15:20 +1000, Ben Skeggs wrote: >> > >> Does this patch help you at all? >> > >> >> > >> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/nouveau/linux-2.6/commit/?id=a3a285f17867f0018de798b5ee85731ec1268305 >> > > >> > > Yes. I cherry-picked this patch on top of Linus' master (3.4-rc4+) and >> > > this appears to solve the "black screen on VGA" problem described in the >> > > original report. Thanks! >> > > >> > > Unfortunately, that's not the end of my VGA-related regressions. :( >> > > >> > > While tracking down the black screen issue, I've been having the monitor >> > > directly connected to the video card the whole time, but now when I'm >> > > connected through my KVM switch (an IOGear GCS1804), it appears that >> > > something's going wrong with reading the EDID, because the available >> > > modes are all screwed up (both console and X decide they want to drive >> > > the display at 1024x768). Here's the output of xrandr on 3.2.15: >> > > >> > > % xrandr >> > > Screen 1: minimum 320 x 200, current 1600 x 1200, maximum 4096 x 4096 >> > > VGA-1 connected 1600x1200+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 352mm x 264mm >> > > 1600x1200 75.0*+ 70.0 65.0 60.0 >> > > 1280x1024 85.0 + 75.0 60.0 >> > > 1920x1440 60.0 >> > > 1856x1392 60.0 >> > > 1792x1344 60.0 >> > > 1920x1200 74.9 59.9 >> > > 1680x1050 84.9 74.9 60.0 >> > > 1400x1050 85.0 74.9 60.0 >> > > 1440x900 84.8 75.0 59.9 >> > > 1280x960 85.0 60.0 >> > > 1360x768 60.0 >> > > 1280x800 84.9 74.9 59.8 >> > > 1152x864 75.0 >> > > 1280x768 84.8 74.9 59.9 >> > > 1024x768 85.0 75.1 75.0 70.1 60.0 43.5 43.5 >> > > 832x624 74.6 >> > > 800x600 85.1 72.2 75.0 60.3 56.2 >> > > 848x480 60.0 >> > > 640x480 85.0 75.0 72.8 72.8 66.7 60.0 59.9 >> > > 720x400 85.0 87.8 70.1 >> > > 640x400 85.1 >> > > 640x350 85.1 >> > > 320x200 165.1 >> > > >> > > And on 3.4-rc4+ (with your patch cherry-picked): >> > > >> > > % xrandr >> > > Screen 1: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 768, maximum 4096 x 4096 >> > > VGA-1 connected 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm >> > > 1024x768 60.0* >> > > 800x600 60.3 56.2 >> > > 848x480 60.0 >> > > 640x480 59.9 >> > > 320x200 165.1 >> > > >> > > Running xrandr on 3.4-rc4+ also causes the screen to go black for a >> > > second when it does not on 3.2.15. It also causes several messages of >> > > the form >> > > >> > > [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Load detected on output B >> > > >> > > to be logged. Also, looking at /sys/class/drm/card0-VGA-1/edid I see >> > > that it is empty on 3.4-rc4+ and it is correct on 3.2.15. Things seem >> > > to work OK when the KVM is not involved. >> > >> > Were you ever able to fetch a EDID with the KVM involved? KVMs are >> > notorious for not connecting the ddc pins. >> >> Yes, it works on 3.2.15 as described above. > > I have the same (or similar) KVM (not in the office at the moment) and I > can confirm that with newer kernels EDID fecthing in flaky. It's 50/50 > if EDED retrieval succeeds or if it fails with: > > Apr 26 13:06:57 dtor-d630 kernel: [13464.936336] [drm:drm_edid_block_valid] *ERROR* EDID checksum is invalid, remainder is 208 > Apr 26 13:06:57 dtor-d630 kernel: [13464.955317] [drm:drm_edid_block_valid] *ERROR* EDID checksum is invalid, remainder is 208 > Apr 26 13:06:57 dtor-d630 kernel: [13464.973879] [drm:drm_edid_block_valid] *ERROR* EDID checksum is invalid, remainder is 208 > Apr 27 09:13:03 dtor-d630 kernel: [44602.087659] [drm:drm_edid_block_valid] *ERROR* EDID checksum is invalid, remainder is 208 > Apr 27 09:13:03 dtor-d630 kernel: [44602.107147] [drm:drm_edid_block_valid] *ERROR* EDID checksum is invalid, remainder is 208 > Apr 27 09:13:03 dtor-d630 kernel: [44602.126908] [drm:drm_edid_block_valid] *ERROR* EDID checksum is invalid, remainder is 208 > Apr 27 09:13:03 dtor-d630 kernel: [44602.146277] [drm:drm_edid_block_valid] *ERROR* EDID checksum is invalid, remainder is 208 > Apr 27 09:13:03 dtor-d630 kernel: [44602.297659] [drm:drm_edid_block_valid] *ERROR* EDID checksum is invalid, remainder is 208 > Apr 27 09:13:03 dtor-d630 kernel: [44602.317063] [drm:drm_edid_block_valid] *ERROR* EDID checksum is invalid, remainder is 208 > > Earlier kernels were able to retrieve EDEDs reliably. > > This is with: > > [ 1.678392] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Detected an NV50 generation card (0x086b00a2) > > Thanks. > > -- > Dmitry > _______________________________________________ > dri-devel mailing list > dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel Just a crazy thought, but didn't we change some timings related to EDID retrieval? 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