On 07/13/2010 04:24 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
Could the Null Pointer blow up be due to incorrect gpu handling by the Arch kernel causing the blow-up when the modules are loaded (about the same time the KMS magic is taking place?
I say this because I have one of ATI's less common gpu's in this Toshiba laptop. The video card is:
Radeon X1250 Graphics(690G Chipset), RS690M, RV410 Graphics Core. This uses the onboard PCIe bus interface and has API support for DirectX 9.0b and OpenGL 2.0. For some reason the kernel crashes 'smell' like a mishandling of the gpu subsystem in the 2.6.34 kernels (Note: this is just a 'gut feel', and I can't point to anything in particular). Of all things that could have changed for the past 2 kernels, the KMS magic and a possible bug slipping in for this card seems like one of the likely areas to start looking.
That could be it, try to disable KMS or use early KMS. I see this happen once in a while when I boot my desktop pc from a usb drive with arch. Most of the times it boots just fine but every once in a while it will hang at that exact place, "Setting console font ...." but I've never seen a kernel panic or had to clean spaghetti of my screen. I could never figure out exactly what was wrong, starting with a cold boot sometimes it hangs, most of the times it works. -- Mauro Santos