[Xorg-driver-geode] MSR access issue spotted on Ubuntu

[Jordan Crouse]

On 19/01/08 12:11 +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> As seen at https://bugs.launchpad.net/180742
> 
> "I have an ALIX1c lx800 motherboard from pcengines, after a long
> effort I successed to be able run Xorg 1.3 with the latest driver
> amd_drv.so. Now I have a really strange problem. Xorg works perfect, I
> can easily manage dpms modes and resolutions, but whenever I want to
> go back to console w/o X the display shows a message "out of range"
> and it doesnt fix until restart x or reboot. eventually this happens
> when I reboot or shutdown too, it is obvious that the driver fails the
> console after killing X."

This is probably related to the ongoing issues with VGA.  It seems that
our int10 kick isn't working.  Time to figure out why.  We need logs.

> "here is a strange line in x.log
> 
> Unable to open /dev/cpu/0/msr/ :2"

This shouldn't matter - TinyBIOS should have the VSA virtual registers,
and since everything works w.r.t acceleration, its probably not a big
deal.

Jordan

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Jordan Crouse
Systems Software Development Engineer 
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.