[i815] [Hardy] doesn't recognize native resolution on Vaio PCG-SRX51P/B (i815m)

[Russel Winder]

I just downloaded the Hardy Heron alpha 3 (dated (2008-01-09) iso image and burned it.

The Live CD boots fine but the X mode is 800x600 instead of 1024x768.

xrandr -q reports that 800x600 is the maximum resolution which is clearly wrong. I assume the wrong graphics driver is being loaded?

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

Please attach /var/log/Xorg.0.log from the live session.

[Russel Winder (russel)]

This attachment is from the boot fromt he Live CD for Hardy Heron. In a few minutes I will attach the file from a boot of Gutsy Gibbon for comparison.

[Russel Winder (russel)]

This is the file from a Gutsy boot. This uses the intel experimental driver but the i810 driver worked as well.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

For some reason it detects wrong values for the panel, so it can only use 800x600 with those. There will be a slightly newer driver for alpha4, which could have a fix for this.

[mikko (mikko-)]

Alpha3, same problem in safe mode, laptop with Via K8M800
I can only get 800x600, vesa driver selected always native 1024x768 resolution before Hardy

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 640 x 480, current 800 x 600, maximum 800 x 600
default connected 800x600+0+0 0mm x 0mm
   800x600 61.0*
   720x576 0.0
   720x480 0.0
   640x480 60.0

[mikko (mikko-)]

oh sorry.. I have Alpha4

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

mikko, thanks for attaching the Xorg.0.log! Your graphics chip isn't an Intel, so you don't have this particular bug - would you mind please filing a new bug report against xorg with that Xorg.0.log? Thanks ahead of time!

[unggnu (unggnu)]

Does it work for you with Ubuntu Hardy Final Live CD?
Was the resolution shown correctly in Gutsy?

[Russel Winder (russel)]

I think this problem may now be just past history. As far as I can tell Hardy is working entirely fine on this machine. (Well there is a problem with the splash screen on booting, but apart from that it all works entirely fine and at 1024x768 :-)

I am still using the i810 driver but am thinking of switching to the intel driver (which I have to use on another machine for various reasons).

[Russel Winder (russel)]

Though I should point out that booting from the Hardy Live CD does cause the system to work in 800x600 mode. So there is a problem there, but not in the disc boot I have.

[unggnu (unggnu)]

Could you please recheck it with the current upstream -intel driver. If it doesn't work with it we can report the issue upstream.
The easiest way is to use the Debian sid driver in Hardy I guess.
Change the Driver line to from i810 to intel in xorg.conf without a restart. You have to remove the old i810 driver because the new one doesn't work parallel.
sudo apt-get remove xserver-xorg-video-i810 xserver-xorg-video-all
Download the current driver from http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/pool/main/x/xserver-xorg-video-intel/xserver-xorg-video-intel_2.3.1-1_i386.deb and install it.
After that restart X and check if your problem is gone. If you have made changes to your xorg.conf generate a new one please (sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg) or just remove it to be sure.

If you want to reset everything do the follow commands.
sudo apt-get remove xserver-xorg-video-intel
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-all

Afterwards you will have the standard hardy driver again.

[Russel Winder (russel)]

I think I may have misled you, or misunderstood what you are suggesting I try. Apologies.

When I boot from hard disk, the machine works perfectly in 1024x768 mode using that standard X.org and i810 driver in Hardy. So there doesn't seem to be a problem there.

The 800x600 issue is when I boot from the Hardy Live CD. Since this is not reconfigurable, I am not sure there is anything I can do to change this, and anyway I invariably boot from disk and that works fine.

The splash screen during booting is presumably not using X.org or its drivers so that must be a different problem.

[unggnu (unggnu)]

The i810 driver is deprecated since a long time and would be most likely removed in newer Ubuntu versions so your problem should be fixed in the -intel driver. To check if it is already fixed in a newer version I posted the above howto.

[Russel Winder (russel)]

I switched from the i810 to intel driver in the xorg.conf and it appears to make no difference at all: the machine boots but without showing the splash screen, X.org starts fine and works in the right graphics mode. So the only problem appears to be in the Live CD boot. I am not sure the recipe above is useful for testing that, it would be testing a disk boot, but that already works fine.

Are the X.org drivers used during boot to show the spalsh screen?

[unggnu (unggnu)]

No, the Xorg driver aren't used for splash screen. Does the Hardy shipped -intel driver work fine with your native resolution oder the Debian sid one?

[unggnu (unggnu)]

If the final Hardy Live CD driver works fine now with native 1024x768 resolution I would start a new bug report against the package usplash for your splash screen issue.

[Russel Winder (russel)]

The Hardy Live CD boots to 800x600 mode, I have no idea which driver is used I'm afraid. My disk installation of Hardy boots fine into 1024x768 using either the i810 or intel driver in X.org. I will stick with the intel driver. So the problem with the Hardy Live CD is real but it doesn't really matter to me as the machine works fine from disk boot. I guess there is something different between the Live CD boot and the disk boot associated with the graphics resolution detection.

The boot splash screen problem was reported as Bug 75635, whcih turns out to be a duplicate of Bug 68012.

[unggnu (unggnu)]

Could you recheck the issue with the Ubuntu 8.04.1 Live CD. Maybe it was a driver issue which was fixed after release so the hard disk installation works but not the final. Unfortunately the support of i81x hardware was discontinued from upstream but if at least the installation works fine ...

[pauleewaulee (pauleewaulee-gmail)]

I am seeing this problem on a fresh install of Hardy on the machine I am typing this message on. It is a PCG-SRX51P. The Windows intel driver utility suggests it is an i82815 graphics chip. 800*600 was the resolution it installed with. The Monitor Resolution tool shows an "unknown" monitor and only 600*480 or 800*600 resolutions as available. It seems to be using a Vesa2 standard/non intel specific driver. It would be good to understand the steps I need to follow to get it working. The driver link above is out of date. Can this be resolved by updating using Synaptic in any way?

[Chris Rust (chris-chrisrust)]

I downloaded and installed Hardy yesterday (16 September08) and had the same problem - 800x600 max and corrupted splash screen on my PCG-SRX51P/B

I'm a total (I mean total) Linux newbie so I'll watch this space for a while before I try anything.

[Jackflap (deriziotis)]

I've just installed the Intrepid RC (alternate cd), and my PCG-SRX51P also boots into 800x600. I will try installing the latest intel driver as unggnu describes in his/her howto above and report back.

[Jackflap (deriziotis)]

Wow, so I tried _everything_ and nothing worked except one thing (probably the most obvious too).

I tried installing the latest xserver-xorg-video-intel as described above, I tried installing 915resolution from hardy's packages, I tried installing xserver-xorg-video-i810, I tried manually setting the intel driver in my xorg.conf and nada, stuck on 800x600 every time.

Take into consideration though, that I'm installing Intrepid from a fully working Feisty install, and after reading the following post (http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/xorg.conf-for-intel-82815-chipset-608658/), I tried just copying the xorg.conf from my old install's backup over my existing xorg.conf and voila.. it worked like a charm.

I just needed to change the Driver section to be 'intel' instead of 'i810' which it used to be and everything started working brilliantly (even the little scroll-wheel on the touch-pad which really does it for me :O).

I'm attaching my xorg.conf if anyone wants to grab it and drop it into their /etc/X11/ directory to get things working.

Alex

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