[coreboot] bug report: i945 text-mode native graphics initialization: graphical corruption with starting Debian/Trisquel net installer.

[The Gluglug]

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Here is some further notes that I collected:

There are issues with i945 text mode graphics initialization:
http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2014-August/078468.html
look into it, follow up on that post and try to fix it.

    Trisquel isolinux menu doesn't show up in seabios (seavgabios)
with text-mode, it just says 'Error setting up gfxboot', but it works
in text-mode with the extract vbios. Looking at gma.c, it looks like
this isn't setup in text-mode by native init, but obviously when using
the extracted vbios, it is setting everything up properly?
    Debian/Trisquel net-install shows graphical corruption (see
mailing list link) when booting directly from GRUB in text-mode, but
works just fine when using the extracted vbios instead of seavgabios.
Are these using text-mode or trying to use graphics? (graphical
installers work just fine in native init or with extracted vbios)
    Debian net-installer (graphical one) fails (trisquel graphical
installer is ok) in native graphics and text-mode (works fine in
vesa/cbfb, or in text-mode plus extracted vbios):
        Scrolling/flickering text in a loop (segmentation fault):
        Xorg (xorg_backtrace+0x49) [0xb7*******] (numbers change)
        Xorg (0xb75******) [0xb7*******] (numbers change
        (vdso) (__kernel_rt_sigreturn+0x0) [0xb7******] (numbers change)
        /lib/libc.so.6 (cfree+0x49) [0xb7******] (numbers change)
        Xorg (xf86DeleteMode+0x51) [0xb7******] (numbers change)
        Segmentation fault at address 0xb7200000
        Fatal server error:
        Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting
    phcoder says that there are limitations in native graphic: for
example, he says native init doesn't provide int10h at all, and that
it lacks VBT. Are there other issues? He says that there are also lots
of ACPI issues in general.


On 26/08/14 02:06, The Gluglug wrote:
> The same issue does not occur when using coreboot with the vga rom 
> extracted from factory bios.
> 
> On 25/08/14 16:50, The Gluglug wrote:
>> Using 6725 to enable text-mode gfx init on X60 when using native
>>  graphics initialization.
> 
>> Affected machines: X60, T60. It may also affect: 
>> macbook21/macbook11, X60 Tablet
> 
>> This relies on the (merged) patch 6723 that enables text-mode 
>> graphics initialization on i945 platforms. The code is there.
> 
>> I then disabled "Keep VESA framebuffer" in menuconfig, to enable
>>  text-mode.
> 
>> error: no video mode activated This is what I see when I try to
>> use the net install iso for Debian with the isolinux parser in
>> grub. I also saw the same thing when trying to start Trisquel 6
>> isolinux menu from SeaBIOS (with SeaVGABIOS added at
>> vgaroms/vgabios.bin from seabios's rom that I built).
> 
>> See attached image of what happens when I try to boot the net 
>> install from Debian (same thing happens with the Trisquel net 
>> install), using the following: linux (usb0)/install.386/vmlinuz 
>> initrd (usb0)/install.386/initrd.gz boot
> 
>> As you can see, there is quite a lot of flicker and parts of the
>>  screen are missing or corrupt. I think this is related to the 
>> issue above ("error: no video mode activated").
> 
>> The net install for Debian and Trisquel both work when using 
>> corebootfb initialization method, but they fail (as seen in the 
>> image) for text-mode method.
> 
>> In case the attachment was scrubbed by the mailing list, I also
>> put it here: http://dev.libreboot.org/x60txtmode.jpg
> 
>> Trisquel graphical install works (I wasn't able to figure out
>> how to boot the Debian graphical install).
> 
>> I also enabled it for T60 (adding the keep/drop vesa fb option
>> for t60/Kconfig, based on 6725, and cherry picking 5345) and the
>> same behaviour was observed there.
> 
>> What does work in text-mode init (tested): memtest86+ and grub 
>> invaders.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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