resetting alpha console

[Kevin Oberman]

On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 11:54 PM, Matthias Apitz <guru at unixarea.de> wrote:

> El día Saturday, June 15, 2013 a las 05:46:36PM -0700, Kevin Oberman
> escribió:
>
> > Please supply your system and graphics card information. Without that,
> it's
> > just a guessing game.  With that it may still just be a guessing game,
> but
> > more information will at least limit the scope of the guesses. Also X
> > server version and build options (WITH_NEW_XORG, WITH_KMS, etc.)
>
> Thanks for your feedback; here are the relevant parts from
> /var/log/Xorg.0.log:
>
> X.Org X Server 1.7.7
> Release Date: 2010-05-04
> X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
> Build Operating System: FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT i386
> Current Operating System: FreeBSD La-Habana 10.0-CURRENT FreeBSD
> 10.0-CURRENT #0 r250588: Mon May 13 22:01:51 UTC 2013
> guru at Perlach:/home/guru/head/obj/usr/home/guru/head/src/sys/GENERIC i386
> Build Date: 07 June 2013  01:52:40PM
>
> Current version of pixman: 0.28.2
>
> ...
> (--) PCI:*(0:0:2:0) 8086:27ae:1025:022f Intel Corporation Mobile 945GSE
> Express Integrated Graphics Controller rev 3, Mem @ 0x58280000/524288,
> 0x40000000/268435456, 0x58300000/262144, I/O @ 0x000060f0/8, BIOS @
> 0x????????/65536
> (--) PCI: (0:0:2:1) 8086:27a6:1025:022f Intel Corporation Mobile
> 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller rev 3,
> Mem @ 0x58200000/524288
> ...
> (II) LoadModule: "extmod"
> (II) Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libextmod.so
> (II) Module extmod: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
>         compiled for 1.7.7, module version = 1.0.0
>         Module class: X.Org Server Extension
>         ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 2.0
> (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
> (II) Loading extension XFree86-VidModeExtension
> (II) Loading extension XFree86-DGA
> (II) Loading extension DPMS
> (II) Loading extension XVideo
> (II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation
> (II) Loading extension X-Resource
> ...
> (II) Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/intel_drv.so
> (II) Module intel: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
>         compiled for 1.7.7, module version = 2.7.1
>         Module class: X.Org Video Driver
>         ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 6.0
> ...
> (==) intel(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
> (==) intel(0): RGB weight 888
> (==) intel(0): Default visual is TrueColor
> (II) intel(0): Integrated Graphics Chipset: Intel(R) 945GME
> (--) intel(0): Chipset: "945GME"
> (--) intel(0): Linear framebuffer at 0x40000000
> (--) intel(0): IO registers at addr 0x58280000
> (==) intel(0): Using EXA for acceleration
> (II) intel(0): 2 display pipes available.
> (II) Loading sub module "ddc"
> (II) LoadModule: "ddc"
> (II) Module "ddc" already built-in
> (II) Loading sub module "i2c"
> (II) LoadModule: "i2c"
> (II) Module "i2c" already built-in
> (II) intel(0): Output VGA using monitor section Monitor0
> (II) intel(0): Output LVDS has no monitor section
> (II) intel(0): I2C bus "LVDSDDC_C" initialized.
> (II) intel(0): Attempting to determine panel fixed mode.
> (II) intel(0): I2C device "LVDSDDC_C:ddc2" registered at address 0xA0.
> (II) intel(0): EDID vendor "INL", prod id 3
> (==) intel(0): Write-combining range (0xa0000,0x10000) was already clear
> (II) intel(0): Resizable framebuffer: not available (1 3)
> (II) intel(0): EDID vendor "INL", prod id 3
> (II) intel(0): Output VGA disconnected
> (II) intel(0): Output LVDS connected
> (II) intel(0): Using exact sizes for initial modes
> (II) intel(0): Output LVDS using initial mode 1024x600
> (II) intel(0): Using default gamma of (1.0, 1.0, 1.0) unless otherwise
> stated.
> (==) intel(0): Write-combining range (0xa0000,0x10000) was already clear
> (II) intel(0): detected 256 kB GTT.
> (II) intel(0): detected 7932 kB stolen memory.
> (==) intel(0): video overlay key set to 0x101fe
> (==) intel(0): DPI set to (96, 96)
> (II) [drm] loaded kernel module for "i915" driver.
> (II) [drm] DRM interface version 1.2
> (II) [drm] DRM open master succeeded.
> (II) intel(0): [drm] Using the DRM lock SAREA also for drawables.
> (II) intel(0): [drm] framebuffer mapped by ddx driver
> (II) intel(0): [drm] added 1 reserved context for kernel
> (II) intel(0): X context handle = 0x1
> (II) intel(0): [drm] installed DRM signal handler
> (**) intel(0): Framebuffer compression enabled
> (**) intel(0): Tiling enabled
> (==) intel(0): VideoRam: 262144 KB
> (II) intel(0): Attempting memory allocation with tiled buffers.
> (II) intel(0): Tiled allocation successful.
> (II) intel(0): [drm] Registers = 0x10000000
> (II) intel(0): [drm] ring buffer = 0x30000000
> (II) intel(0): [drm] mapped front buffer at 0x41000000, handle =
> 0x40000000
> (II) intel(0): [drm] mapped back buffer at 0x42000000, handle =
> 0x50000000
> (II) intel(0): [drm] mapped depth buffer at 0x42400000, handle =
> 0x60000000
> (II) intel(0): [drm] mapped classic textures at 0x42800000, handle =
> 0x70000000
> (II) intel(0): [drm] Initialized kernel agp heap manager, 33554432
> (II) intel(0): [dri] visual configs initialized
> (II) intel(0): vgaHWGetIOBase: hwp->IOBase is 0x03d0, hwp->PIOOffset is
> 0x0000
> (==) intel(0): Write-combining range (0xa0000,0x10000) was already clear
> (II) EXA(0): Offscreen pixmap area of 12582912 bytes
> (II) EXA(0): Driver registered support for the following operations:
> (II)         Solid
> ...
>
>
> Let me know if you need the complete log; the x11/xorg port (from SVN
> head) was only compiled with WITH_DEBUG=yes USE_GCC=any, no further
> options;
>
> thanks
>
>         matthias
>
>
Matthias,

I'm afraid the log did eliminate a couple of the things I thought might be
going on. It also told me what the graphics device is (Intel 945GSE). You
failed to supply the OS version. Output of "uname -a" will suffice nicely.

The log seems to show two Intel graphics devices. Is this the case? Do you
have two displays? What about your Xorg.conf? Any video related things in
/boot/loader.conf or /etc/sysctl.conf? Do you run any vidcontrol commands?

Clearly something is not getting properly reset. Have you tried the newer
mesa and drivers by building "WITH_NEW_XORG="? I'm afraid I don't have and
never have had a 945 video device, so I probably won't be of too much help,
but providing more information might give someone else an idea. There are a
lot of 945s out there.

-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
E-mail: rkoberman at gmail.com