Re: BCM4312 Fails when xdm is started

[Michael Buesch]

On Tuesday 25 November 2008 06:43:22 Yuval Hager wrote:
> However, I have some few interesting findings. 
> First, this is totally unrelated to b43, but to the PCI. I get the flawed 1's 
> read from lspci even without loading b43.
> 
> I played around with different video drivers and the results are:
> * If using the 'via' driver, I lose the PCIe card immediately upon 
> initialization
> * Using the 'openchrome' (trunk version), It works well in the beginning. 
> After first blanking the register reads are all 1's, and then when the screen 
> is blank I get a different read (some registers are correct, some are wrong), 
> and when the screen is unblanked, I get 0xff's again. Very consistent and 
> predictabe (same read every time).
> * Using the 'vesa' driver I could not recreate the problem. I could not get 
> the screen to blank for some reason, but closing the lid, going on 
> standby/hibernate, restarting X - all didn't matter much to the PCI and the 
> wireless card kept on working.

Ok, then you should report the stuff to the X guys. This is not a b43 problem
and I also don't think it's a kernel problem.

-- 
Greetings Michael.
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