FS#62247 - [linux] since v5.0 x11 does not start on various hardware

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Michael Leun (newton) - Friday, 05 April 2019, 23:12 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Monday, 13 May 2019, 08:34 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture x86_64
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 2
Private No

Details

Description:
since commit d179b88deb3bf6fed4991a31fd6f0f2cad21fab5 upstream x11 does not start on various hardware, see e.g. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=244624&p=2.

In https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109806 it is claimed that this is not a kernel issue, it is reported here https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/issues/542 as a xserver issue, but nobody seems to give a shit about fixing.

Fedora reverts d179b88deb3bf6fed4991a31fd6f0f2cad21fab5 in their kernel (https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/kernel/blob/f29/f/0001-Revert-drm-i915-fbdev-Actually-configure-untiled-dis.patch), I suggest to do the same in arch linux.

Additional info:
* package version(s)
* config and/or log files etc.
* link to upstream bug report, if any

Steps to reproduce:
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Monday, 13 May 2019, 08:34 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Elin Angelov (zetxx) - Monday, 08 April 2019, 12:42 GMT
same here, my dev machine is unusable
Comment by knotic (knotic) - Tuesday, 09 April 2019, 08:12 GMT
Same here, machine with Intel Celeron N3160.
Comment by loqs (loqs) - Tuesday, 09 April 2019, 12:55 GMT
If you build xorg-server with the commits from https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/merge_requests/36 does that provide any improvement?
Comment by Michael Leun (newton) - Tuesday, 09 April 2019, 14:40 GMT
Thanks, this commits make it indeed work with current arch 5.0.7-1 kernel. Attached patched packages for those who are also are affected and want to confirm.
   xorg-server-1.20.4-1-x86_64.p... (1.25 MiB)
   xorg-server-common-1.20.4-1-x... (35.6 KiB)
Comment by loqs (loqs) - Thursday, 25 April 2019, 00:13 GMT
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9fa246256e09dc30820524401cdbeeaadee94025
Comment by loqs (loqs) - Tuesday, 30 April 2019, 20:37 GMT
@newton can you confirm this is fixed in 5.0.8.arch1-1 and newer?
Comment by Michael Leun (newton) - Wednesday, 01 May 2019, 21:48 GMT
I can NOT confirm this is fixed in 5.0.8 or newer due to the simple reason that the revert in linus tree did NOT YET make it into stable. 5.0.10 still does NOT have d179b88deb3bf6fed4991a31fd6f0f2cad21fab5 reverted.

EDIT: See https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git/tree/queue-5.0/revert-drm-i915-fbdev-actually-configure-untiled-displays.patch
It is in the stable-queue (and in the review for 5.0.11).
Comment by loqs (loqs) - Wednesday, 01 May 2019, 22:02 GMT
Ah I was wondering if https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?h=v5.0.8&id=4e6f0d588cd2c46e1f14146434d7f9b6381aa425 would have resolved it
Comment by Michael Leun (newton) - Wednesday, 01 May 2019, 22:06 GMT
Nope - did verify with 5.0.10-arch1-1-ARCH and unpatched xserver packages - still has the issue.
Comment by Michael Leun (newton) - Saturday, 04 May 2019, 22:01 GMT
Fixed in 5.0.11-arch1-1-ARCH

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