Re: [Qemu-devel] CONFIG_FB_CIRRUS for Linux guests

[René Rebe]

Hi,

I saw that some pretty long time ago, but didn't care enough to investigate, 
just disabled the cirrus fb  in T2 (http://t2-project.org):

address@hidden:t2-trunk-clean$ svn log -r29093
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r29093 | rene | 2008-05-27 09:37:57 +0200 (Tue, 27 May 2008) | 4 lines

        * updated linux26 module blacklist, do not list ide-generic (that's
          handled these days), but add cirrusfb, which causes a pure black
          screen in Qemu

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address@hidden:t2-trunk-clean$ svn di -c r29093
Index: package/base/module-init-tools/modprobe.conf.data
===================================================================
--- package/base/module-init-tools/modprobe.conf.data   (revision 29092)
+++ package/base/module-init-tools/modprobe.conf.data   (revision 29093)
@@ -203,5 +203,4 @@
 alias char-major-89-* i2c-dev
 alias net-pf-24 pppoe
 
-# do not auto-load (e.g. on boot)
-blacklist ide-generic
+blacklist cirrusfb # plain black screen in Qemu

On 26.01.2010, at 17:02, Alexander Graf wrote:

> 
> On 26.01.2010, at 15:44, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> just received some Linux guest kernel that refuses to properly use its
>> framebuffer console under QEMU (probably any version, tried down to some
>> 0.10.x). It turned out that it has CONFIG_FB_CIRRUS enabled and fails to
>> initialize the display when this is actually used. Anyone came across
>> this before or has some idea what goes wrong?
> 
> The only thing I've seen that might be a similar issue is that the Cirrus 
> driver on Windows NT 4 just shows a black screen with KVM.
> 
> Alex
> 

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