Re: [regression] i915 incorrectly detects bogus LVDS connectioninstead of LVDS1

[Woody Suwalski]

On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Sep 2010 11:10:42 -0400, Woody Suwalski <terraluna977@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> LVDS connected 800x600+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm
>> LVDS-1 connected 800x600+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y
>
> The -intel driver does not generate either of these names, it strictly
> uses "%s%d" or "UNKNOWN" for the output name. Maybe an Xorg.log would
> help identify the issue?
>
> --
> Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre
>

Correct about naming.
However it is same X, only the kernel is changed.
The issue is that kernel reports 2 displays connected, when in fact
there is only one.

Here is the part from Xorg.log on 2.6.36:
(II) intel(0): Creating default Display subsection in Screen section
        "Builtin Default intel Screen 0" for depth/fbbpp 24/32
(==) intel(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
(==) intel(0): RGB weight 888
(==) intel(0): Default visual is TrueColor
(II) intel(0): Integrated Graphics Chipset: Intel(R) 945GME
(--) intel(0): Chipset: "945GME"
(--) intel(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xC0000000
(--) intel(0): IO registers at addr 0xDFE80000 size 524288
(WW) intel(0): libpciaccess reported 0 rom size, guessing 64kB
(II) intel(0): the SDVO device with slave addr 70 is found on DVO 1 port
(II) intel(0): 2 display pipes available.
(II) Loading sub module "ddc"
(II) LoadModule: "ddc"
(II) Module "ddc" already built-in
(II) Loading sub module "i2c"
(II) LoadModule: "i2c"
(II) Module "i2c" already built-in
(II) intel(0): Output VGA has no monitor section
(II) intel(0): Output LVDS has no monitor section
(II) intel(0): I2C bus "LVDSDDC_C" initialized.
(II) intel(0): Attempting to determine panel fixed mode.
(II) intel(0): I2C device "LVDSDDC_C:ddc2" registered at address 0xA0.
(II) intel(0): EDID for output LVDS
(II) intel(0): found backlight control method /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0
xf86TokenToOptinfo: table is NULL
(II) intel(0): I2C bus "SDVOCTRL_E for SDVOB" initialized.
(II) intel(0): I2C device "SDVOCTRL_E for SDVOB:SDVO Controller B"
registered at address 0x70.
(II) intel(0): I2C bus "SDVOB DDC Bus" initialized.
(II) intel(0): Output LVDS-1 has no monitor section
(II) intel(0): SDVOB: device VID/DID: 02:41.01, clock range 25.0MHz - 200.0MHz
(II) intel(0): SDVOB: 1 input channel
(II) intel(0): SDVOB: LVDS0 output reported
xf86TokenToOptinfo: table is NULL
(II) intel(0): I2C bus "SDVOCTRL_E for SDVOC" initialized.
(II) intel(0): I2C device "SDVOCTRL_E for SDVOC:SDVO Controller C"
registered at address 0x72.
(II) intel(0): No SDVO device found on SDVOC
(II) intel(0): I2C device "SDVOCTRL_E for SDVOC:SDVO Controller C" removed.
(II) intel(0): I2C bus "SDVOCTRL_E for SDVOC" removed.
(II) intel(0): Current clock rate multiplier: 1

The real issue is that kernel is most likely crashing if KMS is used -
I can see big cursor before KMS, then cursor disappears (if I run in
noquiet mode, the last line will be about drm), and from now on I have
a black screen. Can not ssh into the box, so probably is dead... No
USB kbd seems alive - X input was not run either?
As such - the box is undebugable...

I agree that probably hardware is wired incorrectly, yet "the other
OS" seems to cope with it.
As were kernels 2.6.33...2.6.35.

I just checked the history - I had to backport LVDS detection from
2.6.33 to 2.6.32 to make it work.

Thanks, Woody
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