On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 18:12:21 +0300 =?UTF-8?Q?Martin=2D=C3=89ric_Racine?= <martin-eric.rac...@iki.fi> wrote: > 2011/8/16 Dávur Eyðunsson Sørensen <dav...@gmail.com>: > > 2011/8/15 Martin-Éric Racine <martin-eric.rac...@iki.fi>: > >> 2011/8/15 Julien Cristau <jcris...@debian.org>: > >>> reassign 637778 xserver-xorg-video-geode 2.11.9-7 > >>> kthxbye > >>> > >>> On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 12:06:37 +0100, Dávur Eyðunsson Sørensen wrote: > >>>> > >>>> I'm using Fit-PC1 units (fit-pc.com) as web development pre-prod. One of > >>>> these requires X installed. > >>>> Although it is not listed as supported OS, I go with my preference and > >>>> run Debian instead of recommended Gentoo or Ubuntu. > >>>> Install worked fine with Lenny but on Squeeze, the graphic card is not > >>>> setup up correctly anymore. > >>>> > >>> Looks like the X server crashes when the geode driver tries to get the > >>> modes, reassigning to the driver. > >> > >> Thank you for re-assigning this bug. That assessment is correct. This > >> being said, we did not know of any commercial product that ships with > >> the DDC pins configured for serial I/O but, apparently, this one does > >> and sadly our driver doesn't know how to fall back to some usable mode > >> or how to bang the GPIO bits back into DDC state before probing. I > >> guess that this something we'll have to get around implementing now. > >> > >> Martin-Éric > > > > Correction: Actually, install does not work neither on any version of > > Debian nor on Ubuntu, which I've tested on these devices using every > > version since 8.04, without any luck (bug reports for Ubuntu have been > > commited to Launchpad bug tracker). On Ubuntu and on Debian, versions > > prior to Squeeze, it was possible to run graphics in safe mode and get > > a desktop; also it was possible to concoct some settings in xorg.conf > > to make things work...but not anymore. > > One question remains: Is it worth the effort if only to satisfy users > > of Fit-PC 1, which are no longer in production? Compulab will release > > a version 3 of the device in fall this year ( see > > http://www.fit-pc.com/fit-pc3/ ). > > > > Dávur > > Dávur, > > I'm curious whether the Fit-PC 1 has a BIOS setting to flip the GPIO > back into DDC mode. Could you check this? If not, it might be worth > placing a support ticket with FIT to produce a corrected BIOS, since > putting the DDC pins into serial console mode has very few uses in a > production environment.
Dávur, Does the issue still apply to recent versions of the driver on Debian? Martin-Éric
