Black screen after booting on latest gentoo-dev-sources

[alchemyx]

Yesterday I have started Gentoo installation again. I am 99% sure to switch from my old distribution, which was fine for servers, but not suitable for daily use.

Installation went fine, withouth problems. Unfortunately after booting, showing few messages from kernel (it is showing quite fast, but I think latest is something about PS?), screen goes almost completly black. I can see cursors in top line of screen (but it has thickness of about 1 pixel). When i try typing somethin it moves, but shows nothing. Also HDD is working, so I assume it is display specific problem. I tried gentoo-dev-sources with "fbcon" in USE and without it. Didn't help. Also not using initrd doesn't help.

My configuration is Gericom laptop with Radeon 9000 Mobility and using builtin LCD.

Any ideas? Thank you!
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Michał Margula, alchemyx@uznam.net.pl, http://alchemyx.uznam.net.pl/
"W życiu piękne są tylko chwile" [Ryszard Riedel]

[nyteryda]

if you set it too boot in standard VGA does it boot ?
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[alchemyx]

I am not using vga= option when booting. Now I tried and using 80x25 mode still same thing happens. BTW: last thing it shows is about "serio".

Tried 2.4.x kernel from gentoo-sources and it works fine, but still no idea what to do with gentoo-dev-sources.
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"W życiu piękne są tylko chwile" [Ryszard Riedel]

[alexynr]

[nyteryda]

Well you could always try the vanilla 2.6 sources.
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[alchemyx]

Did two things:

- genkernel --menuconfig all and disabling all unneeded stuff and it went trough (next thing i will check only disabling framebuffer)
- SSH on that machine and checking dmesg, nothing unusual, but see for yourself (the only thing interesting -vesafb: mode switch failed (eax: 0x2f004f) which is close to "serio", maybe I have VESA broken?) :

Linux version 2.6.8-gentoo-r3 (root@cerber) (gcc version 3.3.4 20040623 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.4-r1, ssp-3.3.2-2, pie-8.7.6)) #1
Thu Sep 9 10:23:27 CEST 2004
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000d2000 - 00000000000d8000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001fff0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000001fff0000 - 000000001fff8000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000001fff8000 - 0000000020000000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
511MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 131056
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
Normal zone: 126960 pages, LIFO batch:16
HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 AMI ) @ 0x000fa920
ACPI: RSDT (v001 AMIINT VIA_K7 0x00000010 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x1fff0000
ACPI: FADT (v001 AMIINT VIA_K7 0x00000011 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x1fff0030
ACPI: DSDT (v001 VIA VIA_K7 0x00001000 INTL 0x02002024) @ 0x00000000
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda6
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling.
Found and enabled local APIC!
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 2048 (order 11: 16384 bytes)
Detected 1662.762 MHz processor.
Using tsc for high-res timesource
Speakup v-2.00 CVS: Mon Jun 7 10:52:38 EDT 2004 : initialized
Speakup: loading module "speakup_n"
request_module: runaway loop modprobe speakup_n
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Memory: 513232k/524224k available (2793k kernel code, 10204k reserved, 976k data, 172k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay loop... 3276.80 BogoMIPS
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Couldn't initialize miscdevice /dev/synth.
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0383fbff c1cbfbff 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0383fbff c1cbfbff 00000000 00000000
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: After all inits, caps: 0383fbff c1cbfbff 00000000 00000020
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: AMD mobile AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ stepping 01
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Using local APIC timer interrupts.
calibrating APIC timer ...
..... CPU clock speed is 1661.0693 MHz.
..... host bus clock speed is 265.0871 MHz.
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 1062k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfda81, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Edge set to Level Trigger.
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: Power Resource [LPTP] (off)
ACPI: Power Resource [URP2] (off)
ACPI: Embedded Controller [EC0] (gpe 5)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15)
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
SCSI subsystem initialized
Linux Kernel Card Services
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:09.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0b.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:10.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:10.1[B] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 5
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:10.2[C] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:10.3[D] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:11.1[A]: no GSI
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:11.5[C] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:12.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
vesafb: ATI Technologies Inc., M9 , 01.00 (OEM: ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9000)
vesafb: VBE version: 2.0
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:56fb
vesafb: pmi: set display start = c00c5769, set palette = c00c57a3
vesafb: pmi: ports = c810 c816 c854 c838 c83c c85c c800 c804 c8b0 c8b2 c8b4
vesafb: monitor limits: vf = 0 Hz, hf = 0 kHz, clk = 0 MHz
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xd0000000, mapped to 0xe0809000, size 16384k
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
Machine check exception polling timer started.
gx-suspmod: error: no MediaGX/Geode processor found!
speedstep-smi: No Intel CPU detected.
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
apm: overridden by ACPI.
devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x0
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
udf: registering filesystem
SGI XFS with large block numbers, no debug enabled
Initializing Cryptographic API
ACPI: AC Adapter [AC0] (on-line)
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery present)
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports C1 C2)
ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (75 C)
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
i8042.c: Detected active multiplexing controller, rev 1.0.
serio: i8042 AUX0 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 AUX1 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1
Firmware: 4.1
Sensor: 8
new absolute packet format
input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad on isa0060/serio2
serio: i8042 AUX2 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 AUX3 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
vesafb: mode switch failed (eax: 0x2f004f)
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
Non-volatile memory driver v1.2
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a NS16550A
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:11.1
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:11.1[A]: no GSI
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VP_IDE: VIA vt8235 (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 controller on pci0000:00:11.1
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfc00-0xfc07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfc08-0xfc0f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
hda: FUJITSU MHS2060AT, ATA DISK drive
Using anticipatory io scheduler
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hdc: Slimtype COMBO LSC-24081, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 117210240 sectors (60011 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p4 < p5 p6 >
hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
st: Version 20040403, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g segs 256
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0b.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:00:0b.0 [1584:3000]
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0098, PCI irq 10
Socket status: 30000007
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 65536)
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
powernow: PowerNOW! Technology present. Can scale: frequency and voltage.
powernow: FSB: 133.020 MHz
powernow: Found PSB header at c00fb4c0
powernow: Table version: 0x12
powernow: Flags: 0x0 (Mobile voltage regulator)
powernow: Settling Time: 100 microseconds.
powernow: Has 33 PST tables. (Only dumping ones relevant to this CPU).
powernow: PST:24 (@c00fb710)
powernow: cpuid: 0x781 fsb: 133 maxFID: 0x3 startvid: 0xb
powernow: FID: 0x6 (6.0x [798MHz]) VID: 0xe (1.300V)
powernow: FID: 0x6 (6.0x [798MHz]) VID: 0xe (1.300V)
powernow: FID: 0x8 (7.0x [931MHz]) VID: 0xe (1.300V)
powernow: FID: 0xa (8.0x [1064MHz]) VID: 0xe (1.300V)
powernow: FID: 0xc (9.0x [1197MHz]) VID: 0xe (1.300V)
powernow: FID: 0xe (10.0x [1330MHz]) VID: 0xd (1.350V)
powernow: FID: 0x0 (11.0x [1463MHz]) VID: 0xc (1.400V)
powernow: FID: 0x3 (12.5x [1662MHz]) VID: 0xb (1.450V)
powernow: SGTC: 13333
powernow: Minimum speed 798 MHz. Maximum speed 1662 MHz.
powernow-k8: Processor cpuid 681 not supported
ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5)
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 172k freed
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:10.3[D] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0
ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: irq 10, pci mem e1877700
ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00, driver 2004-May-10
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 6 ports detected
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
ohci1394: $Rev: 1223 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:09.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[10] MMIO=[dffff800-dfffffff] Max Packet=[2048]
sbp2: $Rev: 1219 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
ReiserFS: hda6: warning: sh-2021: reiserfs_fill_super: can not find reiserfs on hda6
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hda6, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[00030d432512f459]
EXT3 FS on hda6, internal journal
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:11.5[C] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:11.5 to 64
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected VIA KT266/KY266x/KT333 chipset
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe0000000
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:10.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: irq 11, io base 0000e000
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:10.1[B] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (#2)
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: irq 10, io base 0000e400
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:10.2[C] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (#3)
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: irq 5, io base 0000e800
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
usb 2-1: new low speed USB device using address 2
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse] on usb-0000:00:10.0-1
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver
via-rhine.c:v1.10-LK1.1.20-2.6 May-23-2004 Written by Donald Becker
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:12.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
eth0: VIA Rhine II at 0xd800, 00:03:0d:10:c7:c5, IRQ 11.
eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x786d advertising 05e1 Link 45e1.
ohci_hcd: 2004 Feb 02 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)
ohci_hcd: block sizes: ed 64 td 64
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: excluding 0x800-0x87f
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x1c0-0x1cf 0x378-0x37f 0x400-0x40f 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
eth0: Setting full-duplex based on MII #1 link partner capability of 45e1.
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Michał Margula, alchemyx@uznam.net.pl, http://alchemyx.uznam.net.pl/
"W życiu piękne są tylko chwile" [Ryszard Riedel]

[alchemyx]

Should I consider it hardware or gentoo bug?

I am asking because I don't know if I should fill bug report on bugs.gentoo.org.

BTW: When I use genkernel --menuconfig all and then upgrade kernel, will it keep my settings or I need to use --menuconfig again and load it manually?
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Michał Margula, alchemyx@uznam.net.pl, http://alchemyx.uznam.net.pl/
"W życiu piękne są tylko chwile" [Ryszard Riedel]

[toddles13]

I have had the exact same problem.
If you comment out the splash image line. It should work in complete txt mode.
Worked for me.