Bug 68701

Summary: On boot, console freeze after "conflicting fb hw usage nouveau fb vs..." with 3.13-rc8
Product: Drivers Reporter: William (wjfgb)
Component: Video(DRI - non Intel)Assignee: drivers_video-dri
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE    
Severity: normal CC: alan
Priority: P1    
Hardware: x86-64   
OS: Linux   
Kernel Version: 3.13-rc8 Subsystem:
Regression: Yes Bisected commit-id:
Attachments: /var/log/dmesg for 3.13-rc8
Kernel config for 3.13-rc7 and 3.13-rc8
successful dmesg for 3.13.0

Description William 2014-01-14 17:12:10 UTC
Created attachment 122091 [details]
/var/log/dmesg for 3.13-rc8

On boot, console freezes immediately after "conflicting fb hw usage nouveau fb
vs ..." message under 3.13-rc8

Hardware Asus M2NPV-VM with AMD K8 and Nvidia Graphics GeForce 6150.

Was last OK under 3.12.07 and 3.13-rc7.

First noticed under Slackware-14.1 when I changed from kernel 3.13-rc7 to
to kernel 3.13-rc8

On boot up the last line on the console before it freezes is :-

"fb conflicting fb hw usage nouveau fb vs VESA VGA - removing generic driver"

After that line the machine appears frozen (there is no more console output, the
machine does not seem to respond to the keyboard) - but can remote login from
another machine - so was able to save dmesg output.

Under previous kernels I get this "fb conflict..." message but the boot
continues with a screen clear etc, followed by more output to the console.

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I have made no explicit graphics related changes for a long time, the most
recent kernel config change is at the start of the 3.13-rc series where two
new default settings were introduced :-

 CONFIG_DRM_KMS_FB_HELPER=y
 CONFIG_DRM_I915_FBDEV=y

The config files for 3.13-rc7 and 3.13-rc8 are identical.

I run a very similar setup and kernel config on another machine with Intel
graphics and there have been no problems on it with 3.13-rc8.

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I will attach the dmesg output. Note the "BUG" and "Oops" lines in the dmesg.
Comment 1 William 2014-01-14 17:15:33 UTC
Created attachment 122101 [details]
Kernel config for 3.13-rc7 and 3.13-rc8
Comment 2 William 2014-01-20 15:36:25 UTC
Created attachment 122741 [details]
successful dmesg for 3.13.0

Retested with 3.13.0 release, and the same kernel config as
I used with 3.13-rc8, and the console is now OK, thanks.

Will attach the dmesg from a 3.13.0 boot for reference.
Comment 3 William 2024-10-21 14:50:39 UTC
As this is a very old report and the hardware is gone, so would be impossible to test, the bug should be closed.