Created attachment 28858 [details]
Xorg log

This log is pre-hang, unfortunately. The hard drive light never blinks after a hang and I see no evidence that anything useful is logged to the disk after the hang.

Created attachment 28859 [details]
dmesg output

Created attachment 28860 [details]
lspci -vv output

Could you append kernel param with "drm.debug=15", then possible to get dmesg log when in failure? 

I will try that when I get home tonight.

Also, if you can give me a clue about what to "git bisect", I can do that for you. Is it enough to bisect the official Linus kernel? (I just didn't want to start bisecting all the software packages involved without knowing which I should be doing.)

Unfortunately, even with that setting, the crash hangs the machine so hard I can't get any data out.

I tried to bisect the kernel but couldn't get any satisfaction. I grabbed Linus' kernel tree. v2.6.30 is exhibiting the same behavior (hanging as soon as I plug the cable in). v2.6.29 appears to be incompatible with my current xorg drivers. Is there something else I can be bisecting?

(In reply to comment #6)
> Unfortunately, even with that setting, the crash hangs the machine so hard I
> can't get any data out.

It should have been logged in /var/log/messages. You can get it after rebooting.

> I tried to bisect the kernel but couldn't get any satisfaction. I grabbed
> Linus' kernel tree. v2.6.30 is exhibiting the same behavior (hanging as soon as
> I plug the cable in). v2.6.29 appears to be incompatible with my current xorg
> drivers. Is there something else I can be bisecting?

as 2.8.0+2.6.30 also hangs, I'd suggest you to bisect xf86-video-intel (between 2.7.0 and 2.8.0) 

Ah. /var/log/messages: http://jerf.org/messages.after.hdmi.gz

I'll try bisecting the xf86-intel-video tomorrow. Thanks for your attention.

I'm having trouble diagnosing this problem, because I can't get back to a state where it does anything but hang! I've taken X out of the equation by not starting it, walked backwards and forwards between 2.6.29 and 2.6.31-rc7, just trying to find a state where it doesn't hang when I plug the HDMI cable in, and I can't get there. I've built a very minimal 2.6.29 that has no sound support, no framebuffer, set to a generic x86_64 with no tickless kernel, server pre-emption, basically the safest setting for everything that I know of and I can't get it to even just *ignore* the cable; it *always* hangs.

(I know it worked, because I remember encountering the now-fixed issue with a too-small framebuffer to have both my LCD and TV working at the same time without overlap.)

Tonight I'm going to put the windows hard drive back in this machine to see if perhaps Windows is behaving the same way, which would point at hardware problems. My question is, is there any sort of firmware involved here that might have become corrupted? (I have to power off the laptop after each hang so I don't think any RAM state would be persisting there.)

* If I plug in the HDMI cable during the grub bootup, it doesn't hang.
* If I plug in the cable to any kernel I build after bootup, it hangs.
* If I plug in the cable at bootup (either before power on, or at the grub screen), the system can boot normally without X. If I try to start X, the drivers autodetect my screen as 640x480 and start feeding video to both my LCD and the HDMI connection, but it hangs around the time KDE's startup sequence queries XRandR for monitor data. (I'm guessing a bit on that one.)

(Note: When the HDMI video was working, it had trouble picking up the resolution of the TV, though it did eventually work it out.)

If I boot into Vista, the HDMI doesn't hang anything, but otherwise looks like it's shipping noise down the wire on both video and audio channels. (Perhaps I need to update the drivers, which I'm not worried about.) At any rate, between Vista and the last bullet point, I at least know that it's not a hardware failure.

Tomorrow I'm going to rebuild 2.6.30 and xf86-video-intel 2.7.1 and see if perhaps I had it working when I had the cable plugged in at boot time. (I don't recall as at the time I didn't realize it might be an issue.) If *that* works, than I can bisect the driver and/or kernel until I can find the patch that moves me from "works if plugged in from boot" to "hangs even when plugged in at boot time", which ought to provide some sort of clue.

OK, I have this down to a manageable test case.

I have confirmed that there are differences between TV. I took my laptop in to work and found the identical machine exhibited different behavior on a different TV.

Here's my test case: Using the latest vanilla kernel from Linus (now 2.6.31-rc8), if I plugin my laptop to my TV, it actually works correctly, with the framebuffer console appearing on my television and the computer continuing to work. If I change the input on the television away from the computer's HDMI input, the computer continues to work. If I change the input *back* to the computer's HDMI input, the framebuffer displays on the TV but the computer then completely hangs. 

The TV I tried at work mostly worked (didn't run it through a full test sequence) in that I could load X and xrandr could correctly see the TV's resolutions, but it also failed this test; if I switched away from the computer's input then came back, the computer hung.

If this doesn't make you go "aha!" and immediately know what the problem is, can you give me a hint about where to start looking in the code for this problem? I looked over the intel_hdmi.c file but it seemed awfully small for something meant to manage all HDMI communication, so I'm guessing that the real meat is somewhere else.

My XBOX can tell when the TV comes back to the HDMI input is on, so I'm assuming there's some sort of standardized "Hey, you're on the screen!" notice in the HDMI standard, and there's where I want to start looking for dangling pointers. (Is there any chance the driver is trying to synchronously read data that never arrives?)

Will you please attach the vbios.dump? Please get the vbios.dump by using the following command:
     echo 1 > /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/rom
     cat /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/rom >vbios.dump
     echo 0 > /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/rom

It will be great if you can see whether it also hangs under UMS mode? Please add the boot option of "i915.modeset=0".
thanks.
   

so, based on your comment# 11, problem only happens when you switch your TV's input away from the one connected to your computer, right? i.e. if you didn't switch the TV input away, everything works?

[   23.173918] i2c-adapter i2c-2: unable to read EDID block.
[   23.173923] i915 0000:00:02.0: DVI-D-1: no EDID data
[   23.178542] i2c-adapter i2c-2: unable to read EDID block.
[   23.178547] i915 0000:00:02.0: DVI-D-1: no EDID data

these might give us some hint to see how our driver behaviour when no EDID is available, though the lack of EDID might because you switch the TV input away...

Created attachment 29243 [details]
vbios dump obtain as requested

Setting i915.modeset=0 had the following effects:

* Linux no longer booted into the framebuffer console, but into the standard character console.
* If I boot Linux with the HDMI cable hooked up to my television, KDE successfully boots at 640x480 with both the HDMI-1 and LVDS showing the same. Where I believe KDE queries xrandr no longer hung. With the appropriate command lines to xrandr, I was able to set my HDMI display below the LVDS, both at their respective full resolutions, and play a video on the TV with mplayer with surround-sound audio going through HDMI for the first time.
* However, switching away from the computer's HDMI input and back, and plugging in the HDMI cable either after booting in X or even at the standard Linux terminal login prompt hangs the system.

Definitely progress from my point of view.

(In reply to comment #14)
> Created an attachment (id=29243) [details]
> vbios dump obtain as requested
> 
> Setting i915.modeset=0 had the following effects:
> 
> * Linux no longer booted into the framebuffer console, but into the standard
> character console.
> * If I boot Linux with the HDMI cable hooked up to my television, KDE
> successfully boots at 640x480 with both the HDMI-1 and LVDS showing the same.
> Where I believe KDE queries xrandr no longer hung. With the appropriate command
> lines to xrandr, I was able to set my HDMI display below the LVDS, both at
> their respective full resolutions, and play a video on the TV with mplayer with
> surround-sound audio going through HDMI for the first time.
> * However, switching away from the computer's HDMI input and back, and plugging
> in the HDMI cable either after booting in X or even at the standard Linux
> terminal login prompt hangs the system.
Will you please check whether the system still hangs if you plug a HDMI monitor after X is booted? 

Can you login into the system by using ssh When the system hangs?
If so, please get the register_dump.

thanks.
> 
> Definitely progress from my point of view.
> 

Unfortunately, no, no network connection. Plugging an HDMI cable in after X boots hangs the system.

(This was after turning i915.modeset=1 for that boot.)

(In reply to comment #16)
> Unfortunately, no, no network connection. Plugging an HDMI cable in after X
> boots hangs the system.
> 
Please confirm whether the issue still exists in UMS mode.
Thanks.
> (This was after turning i915.modeset=1 for that boot.)
> 

I put it through more of a workout, changing resolutions and switching inputs back and forth. Confirmed: I can not get it to hang in UMS mode.

(I see video tearing in this mode on both the HDMI display and the LVDS display, but I report that only for completeness.)

(In reply to comment #18)
> I put it through more of a workout, changing resolutions and switching inputs
> back and forth. Confirmed: I can not get it to hang in UMS mode.
> 
> (I see video tearing in this mode on both the HDMI display and the LVDS
> display, but I report that only for completeness.)
> 
Will you please try the latest kernel(2.6.32-rc3) and see whether the issue still exists?
thanks.

I am still getting the problem in the latest kernel.

I am trying to get back to a working state so that I can post a drm.debug dump of a working connection with modeset off, in the hopes that such a log would show you whatever weird thing my TV is doing, but I am having trouble getting it to work again for some reason.

I am still unable to get back to the state where it worked when I plugged it in.

However, here is a drm.debug=15-log of starting the machine up with the HDMI cable plugged in at boot time: http://jerf.org/drm.log.gz 

Here's hoping there's something in that log that is immediately obviously wrong with my TV.

(In reply to comment #21)
> I am still unable to get back to the state where it worked when I plugged it
> in.
> 
> However, here is a drm.debug=15-log of starting the machine up with the HDMI
> cable plugged in at boot time: http://jerf.org/drm.log.gz 
> 
> Here's hoping there's something in that log that is immediately obviously wrong
> with my TV.

Sorry for the late response.I download the drm.log but I can't read it as it contains too many strange chars.
Will you please try the latest kernel and see whether it can work for you?

Thanks.

Will you please try the patch in https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23183#35 and see whether the issue still exists?

Thanks.

The log has been gzipped. You'll need to run it through gunzip.

I will try the patch, it looks promising.

Sorry, I tried the latest drm-intel, cf74ecbbff3e3b45bae61d28d2220f74d853e2f0, and I get the same behavior.

(In reply to comment #25)
> Sorry, I tried the latest drm-intel, cf74ecbbff3e3b45bae61d28d2220f74d853e2f0,
> and I get the same behavior.

Will you please try the 2.6.34 kernel and see whether the issue still exists?
Please add the boot option of "drm.debug=0x04"(It will be better that the i915 is built as built-in kernel module).

thanks.

Should be fixed.

As of d44a78e83f7549b3c4ae611e667a0db265cf2e00 on drm-intel, this still happens.

Do the hangs still occur with 2.6.36-rc4 (particularly after 913d8d110078788c14812dce8bb62c37946821d2)? That should just stop any of these hangs during hotplug/modesetting, and hopefully print out a warning if we haven't actually fixed the root cause.

Unfortunately, yes, it still happens.

I'm replacing this laptop in about a month for reasons not related to this bug. Shortly after that I'll be selling it off. If you'd like to close it Could Not Replicate after that I won't have any objection. I've established that it has something to do with my specific television and if it was a major problem you'd think we'd have picked up at least one non-Intel bug watcher by now.

One last thing I can offer you is a sniff of the HDMI connection process, if you know of a way to get a sniff of that process out of Windows, to see if my TV is doing anything whacky. I have Vista I will be putting back on this thing, and the next laptop will have an ATI graphics card & Windows 7. Up to you.

Jeremy any chance you can capture a drm.debug=0xe dmesg right up to the moment of the hang? You might have to use a serial or netconsole.

Is this still an issue?  Can you provide the requested information?

All the kernels discussed here are positively ancient. Please retest on something more modern like 3.2.

I no longer have this device. I'm taking the liberty of closing this WONTFIX.

I'm going to run on the theory that I have a bizarre TV, since nobody else seems to have this problem.

Thank you for your time, everybody.

Closing resolved+wontfix. Marked as resolved by reporter, no activity on >4 years.