Hi,
I 'm trying to test KMS functionality of latest vmwgfx module. I tried the code from http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.dri.devel/42908
as a simple test case, but all I get is a black screen instead of white as would be expected.
Setup: VMWare Workstation 8.0.0 Host & Guest distro: kubuntu oneiric (11.10) libdrm: 2.4.26+git20111003.c82ef03e from xorg-edgers ppa vmwgfx module: latest git version from freedesktop.org
dmesg output (vmwgfx initialization / capabilities) [ 3.696893] vmwgfx 0000:00:0f.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 [ 3.697188] [vmwgfx] Capabilities: [ 3.697191] [vmwgfx] Rect copy. [ 3.697193] [vmwgfx] Cursor. [ 3.697196] [vmwgfx] Cursor bypass. [ 3.697198] [vmwgfx] Cursor bypass 2. [ 3.697200] [vmwgfx] 8bit emulation. [ 3.697202] [vmwgfx] Alpha cursor. [ 3.697204] [vmwgfx] 3D. [ 3.697206] [vmwgfx] Extended Fifo. [ 3.697208] [vmwgfx] Multimon. [ 3.697210] [vmwgfx] Pitchlock. [ 3.697212] [vmwgfx] Irq mask. [ 3.697214] [vmwgfx] Display Topology. [ 3.697216] [vmwgfx] GMR. [ 3.697218] [vmwgfx] Traces. [ 3.697220] [vmwgfx] GMR2. [ 3.697222] [vmwgfx] Screen Object 2. [ 3.697224] [vmwgfx] Max GMR ids is 64 [ 3.697226] [vmwgfx] Max GMR descriptors is 4096 [ 3.697229] [vmwgfx] Max number of GMR pages is 196608 [ 3.697231] [vmwgfx] Max dedicated hypervisor surface memory is 786432 kiB [ 3.697234] [vmwgfx] VRAM at 0xd0000000 size is 131072 kiB [ 3.697236] [vmwgfx] MMIO at 0xc8800000 size is 2048 kiB [ 3.697239] [vmwgfx] global init. [ 3.700262] [vmwgfx] width 640 [ 3.700276] [vmwgfx] height 480 [ 3.700289] [vmwgfx] bpp 32 [ 3.704308] [vmwgfx] Fifo max 0x00200000 min 0x00001000 cap 0x0000077f [ 3.728297] [vmwgfx] Screen objects system initialized [ 3.728303] [vmwgfx] Detected device 3D availability. [ 3.728401] [vmwgfx] Initialized vmwgfx 2.1.0 20110927 for 0000:00:0f.0 on minor 0
I 'm trying with ./modeset -s 4@6:1024x768
Running the above under strace shows that all underlying ioctls succeed, so it looks like this code should work.
It looks like the update command is not sent to the card because if I add the parameter svga.forceTraces = "TRUE" to the .vmx file of the VM, I see a white rectangle as expected (the mode still doesn't look right though, it looks like the size of the rectangle is 640x480 instead of 1024x768)
I also get in the vmware.log when I run the above: 2011-10-18T19:21:30.849+02:00| vcpu-0| I120: MKS enabling SVGA 2011-10-18T19:21:30.909+02:00| vcpu-0| I120: Guest display topology changed: numDisplays 0 2011-10-18T19:21:30.910+02:00| vcpu-0| I120: Guest display topology changed: numDisplays 0 2011-10-18T19:21:30.934+02:00| vcpu-0| I120: Guest display topology changed: numDisplays 0 2011-10-18T19:21:30.935+02:00| vcpu-0| I120: Guest display topology changed: numDisplays 0 2011-10-18T19:21:30.957+02:00| vcpu-0| I120: Guest display topology changed: numDisplays 0 2011-10-18T19:21:30.974+02:00| mks| W110: MKS-EmuSVGA: Unsupported GMR image format 0x00002020 2011-10-18T19:21:38.837+02:00| vcpu-0| I120: Guest display topology changed: numDisplays 0 2011-10-18T19:21:38.940+02:00| mks| I120: MKS disabling SVGA
Any ideas on what may be going wrong? VMWare would make a pretty cool platform to experiment with several features of the modern open graphics stack like wayland, plymouth, flickerless boot, integrated kernel debugger, multiseat etc etc.
I 'll be happy to provide more debugging information on this problem as needed.
Thanks in advance, Aani