Loading kernel module "tridentfb" crashes system
Hi there,
when I load the kernel module “tridentfb” on an ancient notebook the system crashes. Neither local shell nor ssh shell are responding after tridentfb has been loaded and I cannot connect new ssh sessions. Only restarting using Sysrequest (Sys Req + r, e, i, s, u, b) still works. The screen is showing a “messed up” version of the logo the BIOS is showing during boot up (“Toshiba - in touch with tomorrow” in big red letters - quite ironic on such an ancient device).
The vga16fb kernel seems to work fine on this machine so far. Also did tridentfb work when I ran Arch Linux on this device. So this looks like a software problem to me.
Some info about the device:
Toshiba Satellite S1800-224, version PS181E-0E53E
CPU: Intel Celeron(Coppermine) 1Ghz
Graphic: Trident Cyberblade/i1
Regards,
maribu
PS: I tried the grsec kernel of both Alpine Linux v3.1 and edge an the vanilla kernel in edge. With all three kernel packages I had this problem
(from redmine: issue id 3674, created on 2014-12-29, closed on 2019-06-11)