2.6.0-test2 does not boot with matroxfb
Quoted 7 lines · Juergen Rose
I tried on my PC with a Matrox-G450 several kernel and boot options. Every time when the console should work with matrox framebuffer, linux was crashed. With 2.6.0-test2 and 2.6.0-test2-bk7 I had the following warning performing ''make
modules_install''
WARNING:
/lib/modules/2.6.0-test2[-bk7]/kernel/drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_crtc2.ko needs unknown symbolmatroxfb_enable_irqThis WARNING disapears for
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2.4.22-pre6-ac1 | | | CONFIG_FB=y | VGA=6 | VGA=775 | vesa:0x31C CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y | | | ----------------------------+---------+---------------+--------------- 2.6.0-test2 | |crashes |crashes CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y| VGA=6 |after |after CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y | |BIOS DATA CHECK|BIOS DATA CHECK
What means this? No useful data here... Oopses? Reboot? Endless loop? And did you built vgacon into the kernel? And I'm not sure that 2.6.0 can have both vesafb & matroxfb compiled in (well, you can compile in both, but I'm not sure what happens).
And from your message above it looks like that you are building some vital matroxfb portions as a module. Please build them into the kernel unless you are really sure that you do not want console on them - while 2.4.x's console could use modular fbdevs, 2.6.x's console subsytem cannot do that.
You can also try ftp://platan.vc.cvut.cz/pub/linux/matrox-latest/matroxfb-2.5.72.gz (if 2.6.0-test2-mm5 does not complain about unexported matrox_*_irq
it will probably not apply cleanly to it). It restores fbcon subsystem to the 2.4.x's version.
Petr