Re: thinkpad x200 X.server not work with gm4500 graphics

From: Dave Airlie
Date: Tue Nov 11 2008 - 03:50:49 EST


On Tue, 11 Nov 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:

> On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:25:18 +0800 arrow.ebd@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > deal,
> >
> > My thinkpad x200's X.server can not startup on the kernel 2.6.28,
>
> Were any earlier kernels OK? If so, which version(s)?

What userspace Intel X driver is in use? afaik the GM45 wasn't supported
until after we fixed this issue. Hacking around the size in the kernel
won't actually fix the problem it actually makes a lot of things a lot
worse.

Dave.

> > Thanks.
>
> > and dmesg will show as below:
> > -->>--
> > [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
> > pci 0000:00:02.0: power state changed by ACPI to D0
> > pci 0000:00:02.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
> > pci 0000:00:02.0: setting latency timer to 64
> > [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20060119 on minor 0
> > pci 0000:00:02.0: pg_start == 0x00001f7f, intel_private.gtt_entries == 0x00001fff
> > pci 0000:00:02.0: trying to insert into local/stolen memory
> > --<<--
> >
> > Then, I change file "drivers/char/agp/intel-agp.c" as this:
> > -->>--
> > --diff --git a/drivers/char/agp/intel-agp.c b/drivers/char/agp/intel-agp.c
> > index 9cf6e9b..e681f75 100644
> > --- a/drivers/char/agp/intel-agp.c
> > +++ b/drivers/char/agp/intel-agp.c
> > @@ -528,7 +528,8 @@ static void intel_i830_init_gtt_entries(void)
> > * stolen, ignore it in stolen gtt entries counting. However,
> > * 4KB of the stolen memory doesn't get mapped to the GTT.
> > */
> > - size = 4;
> > + /* size = 4; */
> > + size = 516;
> > } else {
> > /* On previous hardware, the GTT size was just what was
> > * required to map the aperture.
> > --<<--
> >
> > And Xorg can start now.
> > (1) Is it correct ?
> > Because older kernel use size as "512 + 4" at here, but now use "size = 4".
> > (2) How to deal with it if the patch is not right ?
> > (3) How to get more specification about gm4500 ?
>
>
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