Bug 194737

Summary: Screen freezes on switch between Wayland and VTs (SandyBridge HD3000)
Product: Drivers Reporter: Peter Weber (peter.weber)
Component: Video(Other)Assignee: James Simmons (jsimmons)
Status: RESOLVED MOVED    
Severity: normal    
Priority: P1    
Hardware: x86-64   
OS: Linux   
Kernel Version: 4.10.1 Subsystem:
Regression: Yes Bisected commit-id:
Attachments: installed packages (ignore 'linux-4.9.11')
config of self compiled 4.10.1
dmesg after ctrl+alt+f3
journalctl -rb after ctrl+alt+f3

Description Peter Weber 2017-02-28 22:26:17 UTC
Created attachment 254993 [details]
installed packages (ignore 'linux-4.9.11')

Hello!

Since Kernel >= 4.10.1 I cannot switch from a Wayland based GNOME-Shell to an FBDEV based TTY with Ctrl+Alt+Function-Key. This worked till Kernel <= 4.9. The screen freezes and shows the GNOME-Shell as it was exactly during the key-press. I cannot see any error or warning in 'dmesg' nor 'journalctl -rb' but hitting Ctrl+Alt+F2 (in most cases GNOME should be running on TTY2, GDM on TTY1) will bring back the GNOME-Shell.

Looking at the output of 'journalctl -rb' I noticed that systemd actually does launch getty on the selected TTY, so I tried a blind login and it worked. So it is only a graphical issue.

While using the GNOME-Shell on X11 everything still works as usual, returning back to Kernel 4.9.11 and everything works as usual also with Wayland. I noticed some changes to FBDEV and Intel ('fbdev helper ops') in 4.10, but they sound not massive or Wayland related.

I'm using a ThinkPad X220 with a Sandy-Bridge i7, therefore it is using a Intel HD3000. Distribution is Archlinux and I'm currently running a self compiled '4.10.1'.


Historicall background:
For long times switching from Wayland to an TTY wasn't possible if the FBDEV in the TTY was activley used i.e. by fbi(da) to show a png/jpeg/whatever. But I didn't cared much, because initally nobody opens fbi(da) and I was able first to switch to an other TTY without a running fbi(da) and then to the TTY with a running fbi(da).

Thank you
Comment 1 Peter Weber 2017-02-28 22:27:03 UTC
Created attachment 254995 [details]
config of self compiled 4.10.1
Comment 2 Peter Weber 2017-02-28 22:32:14 UTC
Created attachment 254997 [details]
dmesg after ctrl+alt+f3
Comment 3 Peter Weber 2017-02-28 22:33:22 UTC
Created attachment 254999 [details]
journalctl -rb after ctrl+alt+f3

Please notice the line 'Feb 28 23:17:46 cupcake systemd[1]: Started Getty on tty3.' -> LOGIN on TTY3 is therefore possible, I can't just see it because I see still the GNOME-Shell.
Comment 4 Peter Weber 2017-03-03 13:55:01 UTC
My bad. I didn't figured out, that freedesktop.org is the right place for graphic-driver issues with Intel and this is likely only about Intel.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi
Comment 5 Peter Weber 2017-03-03 13:55:32 UTC
My bad. I didn't figured out, that freedesktop.org is the right place for graphic-driver issues with Intel and this is likely only about Intel.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100050