[i830] X fails on splash screen with corruption

[Robbt]

Binary package hint: xorg

This bug has been around since the i810 package was removed from intrepid.
For some reason I thought it may have been fixed. I followed the previous bugreports #257711
But that was closed and it said to open a new one. I'm willing to divulge whatever logs or reports are necessary to fix this.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
CurrentDmesg:
 [ 128.398974] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
 [ 128.419960] pci 0000:00:02.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
 [ 128.419974] pci 0000:00:02.0: setting latency timer to 64
 [ 128.422321] [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20080730 on minor 0
Date: Sun Aug 2 22:10:28 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Lsusb:
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
MachineType: FUJITSU LifeBook S Series
Package: xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu5
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=ada4ee78-0785-430f-8f74-f5454f389b00 ro single nosplash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.28-3.12-rt
RelatedPackageVersions:
 xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu5
 libgl1-mesa-glx 7.5-1ubuntu1
 libdrm2 2.4.12-1ubuntu1
 xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.8.0-0ubuntu1
 xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.99+git20090629.f39cafc5-0ubuntu4
SourcePackage: xorg
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-3-rt i686
XorgLogOld:

Xrandr: Error: command ['xrandr', '--verbose'] failed with exit code 1: Can't open display
dmi.bios.date: 05/19/2003
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix/FUJITSU
dmi.bios.version: Version 1.11
dmi.board.name: FJNB162
dmi.board.vendor: FUJITSU
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: AFQ063A90BC01300
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenix/FUJITSU:bvrVersion1.11:bd05/19/2003:svnFUJITSU:pnLifeBookSSeries:pvr:rvnFUJITSU:rnFJNB162:rvr:cvnAFQ063A90BC01300:ct10:cvr:
dmi.product.name: LifeBook S Series
dmi.sys.vendor: FUJITSU
fglrx: Not loaded
glxinfo: Error: command ['glxinfo'] failed with exit code 255: Error: unable to open display
setxkbmap: Error: command ['setxkbmap', '-print'] failed with exit code 255: Cannot open display "default display"
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 architecture: i686kernel: 2.6.28-3-rt
xdpyinfo: Error: command ['xdpyinfo'] failed with exit code 1: xdpyinfo: unable to open display "".
xkbcomp:
 Error: command ['xkbcomp', ':0', '-w0', '-'] failed with exit code 1: Error: Cannot open display ":0"
                   Exiting

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

(EE) intel(0): No valid modes.

[Geir Ove Myhr (gomyhr)]

Uname: Linux 2.6.28-3-rt i686

Karmic currently has kernel 2.6.31-4 and a lot of the xorg setup is now done in the kernel. Does the problem also occur with that kernel?

[Robbt (robbt)]

I booted into Linux again and added the 2.6.31-4 kernel and the problem is still occurring. It is actually failing at the splash screen at this point vs. when GDM is launched. It fills the screen with white and then becomes unresponsive. This problem has been around since Intrepid Ibix and I had switched to debian but ran into an Xorg problem when I switched from Lenny to the latest testing images. So I don't know of any workaround at this point and it could in fact be the same as this bug since it's similar hardware https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/362582. I have a Lifebook 6010 as someone else has in the bug I linked too.

I think the problem is that this hardware isn't supported currently whenever there was a transition away from i810 specific drivers onto intel. Is there any chance of this getting resolved ?

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Robbt - I've forwarded this bug upstream to https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23432 - please subscribe yourself to this bug, in case they need further information or wish you to test something. Thanks ahead of time!