No Video With Aspeed (ast Module) And Latest Kernel

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Hello, I have a CentOS Stream 9 server. It is an Intel D50DNP1SBB one with:

02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ASPEED Technology, Inc. ASPEED Graphics Family (rev 52) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
DeviceName: ASPEED AST2600
Subsystem: ASPEED Technology, Inc. ASPEED Graphics Family
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 16, NUMA node 0, IOMMU group 42
Memory at 94000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [sizeM]
Memory at 95000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size%6K]
I/O ports at 1000 [size8]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/4 Maskable- 64bit+
Kernel driver in use: ast
Kernel modules: ast

Under kernel 5.14.0-386.el9.x86_64 I’m able to connect via bmc without any problem both in text mode (multi-user.target) and graphical
(graphical.target). Both with and without Wayland enabled in /etc/gdm/custom.conf

This morning I updated the system and the kernel is now
5.14.0-404.el9.x86_64, and I’m not able to see the console in any of the 3
configurations above in my bmc kvm remote terminal. SSH connection to the system is ok without problem. Inside the remote kvm console I see the grub menu, I see the scrolling kernel boot sequence (I removed rhgb quiet options), but at the end my remote kvm display square disappears. How can I debug? Can I disable DRM for the ast kernel module? or start with vesa in any way?

screenshot with 5.14.0-386.el9.x86_6:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VoDYAYLOIrErOGVNXgR8wNypzxyjd7k8/view?usp=sharing

screenshot with 5.14.0-404.el9.x86_64:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UClBOXHIjxc4rqiKW0wbMwIYKlrB_kGn/view?usp=sharing

Thanks in advance, Gianluca

One thought on - No Video With Aspeed (ast Module) And Latest Kernel

  • solved addin at the end of GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX line in /etc/default/grub rdblacklist=ast ast.modeset=0
    and then grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/CentOS/grub.cfg reboot Gianluca