Bug 55375

Summary:

[i915 KMS] Supermicro X7SPA-H board reports phantom LVDS, VGA display unusable

Product:

DRI

Reporter:

Francois Tigeot <ftigeot>

Component:

DRM/Intel

Assignee:

Daniel Vetter <daniel>

Status:

CLOSED FIXED

QA Contact:

Severity:

major

Priority:

medium

CC:

ben, chris, daniel, ftigeot, jbarnes

Version:

unspecified

Hardware:

All

OS:

All

Whiteboard:

i915 platform:

i915 features:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
No LVDS quirk	none

Description Francois Tigeot 2012-09-27 07:11:32 UTC

The Supermicro X7SPA-H is a desktop mini-ITX board with a single VGA output driven by a i915-compatible chipset (Intel GMA 3150):
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/ICH9/X7SPA.cfm?typ=H

This board reports a phantom LVDS display and the KMS system used by newer Linux distributions uses it as the primary display, rendering the real VGA one unusable.

For example, with Fedora 17 only a wallpaper is displayed on the real screen and the mouse cursor can be moved to a phantom one on the left. Login screen and startup messages are not visible.

Only by adding "video=LVDS-1:d" on the kernel command line am I able to get usable output on the VGA display.

System information as reported by dmidecode:

System Information
        Manufacturer: Supermicro
        Product Name: X7SPA-H
        Version: <BAD INDEX>
        Serial Number: <BAD INDEX>
        UUID: 49434D53-0200-9005-2500-059025004071
        Wake-up Type: Power Switch
        SKU Number: <BAD INDEX>
        Family: <BAD INDEX>

Comment 1 Chris Wilson 2012-09-27 07:32:50 UTC

Are you absolutely sure the board doesn't have an LVDS header?

Comment 2 Francois Tigeot 2012-09-27 07:56:56 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> Are you absolutely sure the board doesn't have an LVDS header?

100% sure, this particular model only has a VGA port.

There is effectively a X7SPA board with a LVDS header, but it's a different model named X7SPA-L.
None of them can be upgraded or downgraded to the other.

Comment 3 Chris Wilson 2012-10-17 17:04:22 UTC

Created attachment 68722 [details] [review]
No LVDS quirk

Sorry for the delay, can you please test the attached patch?

Comment 4 Francois Tigeot 2012-10-18 16:38:22 UTC

Thanks for the patch, it fixed the issue perfectly!

No more phantom screen with a patched kernel :-)

Comment 5 Chris Wilson 2012-10-19 20:26:32 UTC

Applied to -fixes:

commit c31407a3672aaebb4acddf90944a114fa5c8af7b
Author: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Date:   Thu Oct 18 21:07:01 2012 +0100

    drm/i915: Add no-lvds quirk for Supermicro X7SPA-H
    
    Reported-and-tested-by: Francois Tigeot <ftigeot@wolfpond.org>
    Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55375
    Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
    Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>

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