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Forum Topic - Unabel to start poulsbo graphics driver.: (6 Items)
   
Unabel to start poulsbo graphics driver.  
My graphic card is Poulsbo. While booting up, the system just dies.The screen turns not only white or black but with 
many colors.I've looked into te file
 
1. /etc/system/enum/devices/graphics
This file includes the following lines. I don't see any problems.device(pci, ven=
8086, dev=8108)start/wait( dispconf -i "0x$(ven),0x$(dev),$(index)" -d poulsbo )requires/wait( $(
IODISPLAY_CMD), )mount(-Tio-display "vid=0x$(ven),did=0x$(dev),deviceindex=$(index)" )

The plateform I'm using is menlow, Poulsbo SCH.
I am trying to boot QNX v6.4.1 (released version).

My display.conf is showed as below.
device {
    drivername=poulsbo
    vid=0x8086
    did=0x8108
    deviceindex=0
    modeopts=/etc/system/config/poulsbo.conf
    display {
        xres=1024
        yres=768
        refresh=60
        pixel_format=argb8888
    }
}

The original poulsbo file is:
general:uselvds=0,usesdvo=1,overlaypipe=0,planecpipe=0,dualview=0
pipea:pllref=96000,dpll=0x44000c00
pipeb:pllref=96000,dpll=0x48000c00

Because this machine - display is connect through SDVO,
I changed the original poulsbo.conf to this
general:uselvds=0,usesdvo=1,overlaypipe=0,planecpipe=0,dualview=0
pipea:pllref=96000,dpll=0x44000c00
pipeb:pllref=96000,dpll=0x44000c00


I tried booting into text mode and then starting photon but the result is same.
I am not able to capture sloginfo since the system crashes. I tried telnet from other machine but in vain.
Please help me.



Re: Unabel to start poulsbo graphics driver.  
Do you get the same problem if you don't specift the 'modeopts' line 
in your display.conf?

If you try to force one of the generic drivers (vesabios or svga) does graphics start up?

Thanks
Re: Unabel to start poulsbo graphics driver.  
Hi,
Yes i would get the same problem even if i don't have the modeopts line in the display.conf file.

If i force the vesabios driver the graphics come up. I am trying to get 3D acceleration support here with poulsbo driver
. Ultimately i need to run egl-gears.

If i run egl-gears from safe mode the result is the same.

Does the poulsbo need any startup option as i have a doubt regarding the memory aperture that is mentioned in the 
poulsbo.conf as to howthe driver gets the memory or do we need to do anything?

Thanks,
Nagaraj.
Re: Unabel to start poulsbo graphics driver.  
Hi,
I have some more info regarding this issue. We have an option in our BIOS to set the pre-allocated memory for the 
graphics device the default being 8MB. the other options are 4MB and 1 MB. When this option is set to 8MB or 4MB the 
behavior is same as described above i.e., the system crashes.

But, when i set the option to 1MB i see that the system doesn't crash - the monitor displays "No video signal" and goes 
to standby mode. From here i enter the text mode and i could dump the sloginfo which i have attached.

The thing i tried is set the option to 1MB in theBIOS and boot QNX6.4.1 into safe mode and start photon manually by 
typing "ph".

I think the problem might be the way in which memory aperture being passed to the driver.
Please do let us know as to how this driver gets the memory the default being 64Meg which it expects during startup.
Thanks and Regards,
Nagaraj.
Attachment: Text sloginfo.txt 6.13 KB
Re: Unabel to start poulsbo graphics driver.  
Hi,
Did anybody got a chance to take a look into this issue? I am still stuck at the same point.
Regards,
Nagaraj.
RE: Unabel to start poulsbo graphics driver.  
Unfortunately there has been no one available to try to investigate this
further.  We have not seen this issue here on the platforms that have 
Poulsbo graphics.   At this point it seems to be very specific to your
particular system and more than a simple configuration option.


-----Original Message-----
From: Nagaraj Salotagi [mailto:community-noreply@qnx.com] 
Sent: July 7, 2009 2:27 AM
To: advanced-graphics
Subject: Re: Unabel to start poulsbo graphics driver.

Hi,
Did anybody got a chance to take a look into this issue? I am still
stuck at the same point.
Regards,
Nagaraj.

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