http://bugzilla.xensource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=969
Summary: Hypervisor does not initialise VGA console correctly
Product: Xen
Version: unstable
Platform: x86-64
OS/Version: Linux
Status: NEW
Severity: minor
Priority: P2
Component: Hypervisor
AssignedTo: xen-bugs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
ReportedBy: greenrd@xxxxxxxxxxx
This bug has existed for over a year, in every snapshot of Xen I have tried
(can't remember if there was a time before that when it worked right). On my
hardware, the hypervisor does not initialise the VGA console correctly,
resulting in unreadable garbage on the display, until X starts, at which point
the display is OK again. (I have tried with and without the option
vga=text-80x50 and the result is the same.)
The workaround is to put console=com1 on the command line, which disables vga
output.
Interestingly, I can reproduce a similar-looking garbage effect if I boot a
normal Linux console with vga=ask and choose 80x60 mode. But from my reading of
the code, xen shouldn't use 80x60 mode by default, and certainly not when I
tell it to use 80x50.
I am running kernel-xen-2.6.20-2925.5.fc7 from Fedora 7 test 3 (which contains
just xen changeset 13132 with compile fix and version string patches) on an
Intel Pentium 4.
>From lspci -v -v:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300
(PCIE)] (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 0402
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort-
<MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
Region 0: Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Region 1: I/O ports at dc00 [size=256]
Region 2: Memory at dfde0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Expansion ROM at dfe00000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
Capabilities: [58] Express Endpoint IRQ 0
Device: Supported: MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, ExtTag+
Device: Latency L0s <128ns, L1 <2us
Device: AtnBtn- AtnInd- PwrInd-
Device: Errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal+ Fatal+ Unsupported-
Device: RlxdOrd+ ExtTag+ PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop+
Device: MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 128 bytes
Link: Supported Speed 2.5Gb/s, Width x16, ASPM L0s L1, Port 0
Link: Latency L0s <128ns, L1 <1us
Link: ASPM Disabled RCB 64 bytes CommClk+ ExtSynch-
Link: Speed 2.5Gb/s, Width x16
Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/0
Enable-
Address: 0000000000000000 Data: 0000
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