Re: [PATCH] Don't probe for DDC on VBE1.2

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Fri Feb 16 2007 - 02:03:17 EST


On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 21:59:06 -0800 (PST) Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 21:45:06 -0800 Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 21:35:35 -0800 (PST) Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > This makes the long-suffering-but-vigorously-defended Vaio come up with a
> > > > > black display. Everything's working OK otherwise. Sort of a Black Screen
> > > > > of Life. I wouldn't call it an improvement though.
> > > >
> > > > Bugger, what does your kernel commandline look like?
> > >
> > > Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb vga=0x263 clock=pit
> >
> > Removing the vga=0x263 "fixes" it.
> >
>
> Sorry i missed this earlier, could you also post up an Xorg.0.log (or
> equivalent for your system).
>

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
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