<thomas.vonsteiger@bluewin.ch>
2006-Aug-18 07:53 UTC
[Fedora-xen] ati-driver and xen kernel --> black screen
Hi, I can testing HP Notebooks nw8440 and nc8430 with VT enabled CPU''s (T2500/T2600) and fc5 to have fullvirtualitation on a notebook. With the latest smp kernel 2.6.17-1.2174 and ati-driver-installer-8.27.10-x86.run (generate rpm''s) everything is working. If I try to boot the latest xen kernel 2.6.17-1.2174 in runlevel 5 with the same ati driver I get a black screen, no display, no console. The same xen kernel can boot without problem in runlevel 3 and then I have a console. Has anybody a solution for this problem ? Reagards Thomas
<thomas.vonsteiger@bluewin.ch>
2006-Aug-23 06:43 UTC
AW: [Fedora-xen] ati-driver and xen kernel --> black screen --> fc6 Test2 ok
Hello, Now with FC6 Test2, xen Kernel and ati-driver-installer-8.27.10-x86.run display with high resolution on HP Notebooks nw8440 and nc8430 is running. This type of notebooks with cpu''s T2500/T2600 are not VT enabled from OEM site. With latest BIOS there is no config to enable VT. (XEN) Initializing CPU#0 (XEN) Detected 2161.335 MHz processor. (XEN) CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K (XEN) CPU: L2 cache: 2048K (XEN) CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0 (XEN) CPU: Processor Core ID: 0 (XEN) VMX disabled by Feature Control MSR.>From googeling about "VMX disabled by Feature Control MSR" if found:http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2006-06/msg00549.html No, it''s called a lock bit because it is sticky once set. The intention is presumably to allow OEMs an easy way (in their BIOS) to disable VMX on their systems if they don''t want to have to support it. Thomas _____ Von: fedora-xen-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:fedora-xen-bounces@redhat.com] Im Auftrag von thomas.vonsteiger@bluewin.ch Gesendet: Freitag, 18. August 2006 09:54 An: fedora-xen@redhat.com Betreff: [Fedora-xen] ati-driver and xen kernel --> black screen Hi, I can testing HP Notebooks nw8440 and nc8430 with VT enabled CPU''s (T2500/T2600) and fc5 to have fullvirtualitation on a notebook. With the latest smp kernel 2.6.17-1.2174 and ati-driver-installer-8.27.10-x86.run (generate rpm''s) everything is working. If I try to boot the latest xen kernel 2.6.17-1.2174 in runlevel 5 with the same ati driver I get a black screen, no display, no console. The same xen kernel can boot without problem in runlevel 3 and then I have a console. Has anybody a solution for this problem ? Reagards Thomas