LE13, Intel Nuc running Xe (GPU driver) and foot (terminal); Bug ?

  • since yesterday I see a bug (?) here.

    just me ?

    to produce:

    1. run nightly-20260612-5c96e6

    2. with xe-gpu-driver (i915 is fine)

    3. start foot

    4. to end foot type "exit"

    since yesterday I see:

    - foot exists

    - Kodi desktop just pop up for a second

    - screen becomes and stays black

    via ssh I see (dmesg):

    Code
    nuc kernel: xe 0000:00:02.0: [drm] *ERROR* [CRTC:149:pipe A][PLANE:33:plane 1A] fault (CTL=0x94001000, SURF=0x4000000, SURFLIVE=0x4000000)

    log:

    https://paste.libreelec.tv/parklike-brendan.log

    addional info:

    does not happen with i915-gpu-driver

    no fix with previous nightly

    box got a new bios yesterday, but the release notes do not tell something gpu related has changed.

    otherwise (unsure) I would see this with i915-gpu-driver too.

  • This is somewhat expected, the xe driver is for the Xe2 (and later) GPUs.

    Since you have a first gen Xe you need to use the i915 driver - just remove the force_probe options from your command line, the kernel will then automatically use the correct driver.

    Note that the kernel config explicitly mentions that support for first gen Xe in the xe driver is experimental:

    linux/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/Kconfig at master · torvalds/linux
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    config DRM_XE
        ...
    	help
    	  Driver for Intel Xe2 series GPUs and later. Experimental support
    	  for Xe series is also available.

    so long,

    Hias

  • I'm aware Xe is declared as experimental.

    Thanks for support, but ...

    my LE13 Nuc has a uptime of 100 h and most of the time it was running Xe.

    Also my desptop box with Intel Corporation RocketLake-S GT1 [UHD Graphics 730] is running Xe since moons, through all kernels (I'm one of the Greg KH stable kernel tester). I'm on 7.1.0-rc7.

    Both boxes only have Gen1 Xe GPU's und I've never seen bugs.

    for the nuc I reported 1 or 2 issues regrading Xe, what -IIRC - have been config issues.

    the 7.0.8 kernel for LE is out since some moons and was running flowlessly until yesterday.

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    we should wait until heitbaum will release kernel 7.1

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    heitbaum care to reproduce my finding with your similar NUC12 ?