[meta-intel] Next Gen Intel BSPs (GMA600 on TunnelCreek)

Scott Garman scott.a.garman at intel.com
Tue Feb 25 12:07:36 PST 2014


On 02/25/2014 08:32 PM, Tom Zanussi wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-02-25 at 15:26 +0100, Scott Garman wrote:
>> On 02/25/2014 03:20 PM, Hart, Darren wrote:
>>> Scott, question for you below...
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>>>>> So the problem here is some kind of interference with the
>>>>> CONFIG_GMA600,
>>>>>> which is now turned on by default - I'll have to either dig into find
>>>>>> the actual problem or just turn it off for _crownbay-noegd...
>>>>>
>>>>> Oh... Hrm... We should actually be able to use that driver now on the
>>>>> Tunnel Creek systems as of 3.10-LTSI and 3.13+. Scott Garman tested it
>>>>> on
>>>>> the MinnowBoard, I haven't done so myself unfortunately. Do we specify
>>>>> another driver in the xorg.conf or something that is causing some
>>>>> confusion about which driver to use?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> No, there's no special xorg.conf for crownbay-noemgd...
>>>
>>> Scott, did you have to do something special to get the gma600 driver
>>> working on the MinnowBoard? Did it require you to write an xorg.conf?
>>
>> Yes, you need to include the xf86-modesetting driver and set the
>> following in your xorg.conf:
>>
>> Section "Device"
>>           Identifier      "gma500"
>>           Driver                "modesetting"
>> EndSection
>>
>> Section "Screen"
>>           Identifier      "gma500 Screen"
>>           Device          "gma500"
>> EndSection
>>
>> I think that should be all you need. Let me know if you run into
>> problems with that.
>>
>
> That's a little better but still getting:
>
> [1782396.836] (==) AIGLX enabled
> [1782396.836] Loading extension GLX
> [1782396.836] (II) LoadModule: "modesetting"
> [1782396.845] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/modesetting_drv.so
> [1782396.850] (II) Module modesetting: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
> [1782396.851]   compiled for 1.15.0, module version = 0.8.1
> [1782396.851]   Module class: X.Org Video Driver
> [1782396.851]   ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 15.0
> [1782396.851] (II) modesetting: Driver for Modesetting Kernel Drivers: kms
> [1782396.851] (--) using VT number 3
>
> [1782397.299] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for modesetting
> [1782397.380] (EE) Screen 0 deleted because of no matching config section.
> [1782397.380] (II) UnloadModule: "modesetting"
> [1782397.380] (EE) Device(s) detected, but none match those in the config file.
> [1782397.380] (EE)
> Fatal server error:
> [1782397.380] (EE) no screens found(EE)

Hmmm...I'm not sure what to suggest. I'd like to re-create the setup but 
I can't do it out here. I've added Patrik Jakobsson to the cc: list - he 
might have some suggestions.

Scott

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Scott Garman
Embedded Linux Engineer - Yocto Project
Intel Open Source Technology Center


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