[i810] world's most broken BIOS

[Jean Privat]

Problem to start the x server. try with ubuntu live cd array 5.

I will attach xorg.log and lspci output.
Ask me if you want other information

[Jean Privat (privat)]

Created an attachment (id=1386)
/var/log/Xorg.0.log

[Jean Privat (privat)]

Created an attachment (id=1387)
lspci output

[Daniel Stone (daniels)]

The problem here is that your BIOS is totally broken and doesn't do 24bpp modes:
we should probably fail more gracefully in this case, but for the time being, I
don't think there's much we can do, sorry.

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 9525.

[Daniel Stone (daniels)]

xresprobe (0.4.15) hoary; urgency=low

  * Add patch from Sven Luther to walk /sys looking for EDID data exported by
    (e.g.) radeonfb on alpha and powerpc, as well as checking the OF device
    tree (partially mitigates Ubuntu#7144).
  * Unconditionally fork X on i810, and grep the log to see if the card breaks
    with 'no modes supported at the current depth' (i.e. the BIOS authors
    didn't think 24bpp was a good idea), and output 'depth: 16' in this case
    to hint the X server in the direction of something that may work. Yes,
    this is an awful hack, but it (closes: Ubuntu#6675).
    + Added bitdepth.sh; refactored xresprobe code to separate code to fork
      Xorg and capture the log into a forkx() function, which dodepthcheck()
      and doprobe() call.

 -- Daniel Stone <email address hidden> Wed, 16 Mar 2005 23:09:28 +1100

This bug should actually be fixed now.