Re: bug in radeon driver module of linux 2.6.38 (since 2.6.35)

From: Markus Trippelsdorf
Date: Fri Apr 15 2011 - 02:59:20 EST


On 2011.04.14 at 23:51 +0200, Martin Teufel wrote:
>
> I encountered a bug in the radeon driver module of 2.6.37 which still
> exists in 2.6.38.
> I have a mainboard called M2A-VM which has VGA, DVI and display port as
> graphic output ports. When I boot Debian GNU/Linux with Linux 2.6.37 or
> 2.6.38 I get every 10 seconds:
>
> radeon 0000:01:05.0: HDMI-A-1: EDID block 0 invalid.
> [drm:radeon_dvi_detect] *ERROR* HDMI-A-1: probed a monitor but no|invalid EDID
>
> This error message is spamming to tty1 (and because of my configuration
> to ttyS0 too). With radeon.modeset=0 set, I get rid of this messages by
> disabling KMS for this driver.

drm_kms_helper.poll=0 is what I use locally here. Maybe it helps in your
case, too.

--
Markus
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