Created attachment 48405 [details] archive containing .config and dmesg output of my custom kernel With my custom kernel (config and dmesg attached at this message in a tar.gz archive) I have a problem with radeon DRM module. When the KMS is loading the system is freezed, the keyboard is dead, the machine doesn't answer at the ping and I can only reset the machine. I haven't any debug information because this crash show a black screen and no file (dmesg, kern.log, messages, ecc) are written. This problem doesn't happen always, but often so it is also difficult to determine when a change in the configuration in the kernel may have solved the problem I actually use a linux kernel version 2.6.39 on a debian testing. I compile a personalized kernel from the sources packaged by debian. The problem seems don't happen with the prebuild kernel (I have tried the package linux-image-2.6.39-2-686-pae) but I'm not sure, simply for now, with this, the machine was started without problem I never had problems with kernel 2.6.38 using a very similar .config file The radeon card is a HD6670 PCI Express (chip TURKS) See here http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=631567 for other details
This might be a duplicate of bug 38583. Relevant patches: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=a377e187df725fe7e62d2cec59ec290c5a605d93 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=ee4017f4ac8163737793cc64df535cd246792887 If they don't help, can you bisect?
I tried to apply the patch and it did not work, the system freezes with a kernel panic. It seems correct because if a precompiled kernel (hence not patched) works and my custom kernel works (sometimes) could not be this the problem. What do you mean with "bisect" ?
Problem solved My config have many years, each time "make menuconfig" add the new options but in the original configuration I have exagerated with the hardening :) I have analysed, compared and merged the config of a custom kernel on my old laptop (wich is full amd) and this .config. Now the kernel boot and KMS is loaded without problem I have attached a new archive with old and new confing files (configOldAndNewForDiff.tar.gz). The answer is in the diff If you consider interesting the detailed analisys of the problem I can try to test more combination between this two configuration to find what is requested by KMS for work without problem
Created attachment 48463 [details] old and new config file of my custom kernel
Although the 'crash' configuration is not very sensible, any valid configuration should not result in a crash so long as the hardware requirements are met. Comparing the 'ok' and 'crash' configurations, I think the important difference is probably: -CONFIG_VIDEO_OUTPUT_CONTROL=y +# CONFIG_VIDEO_OUTPUT_CONTROL is not set
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