i845, 8.10: When log in black screen and mouse (fixed by removing Compiz)

[Bhoemen]

[i845 Chipset]
I just downloaded Ubuntu 8.10 via Bittorrent and burned it to disc using Brasero at maxium speed (52x) and went to use the live cd and it flashed a orange screen then after about 7 seconds went black with the mouse still there, so i restarted the computer and tryed to install it instead, it installed fine, got to the log on screen typed my user name and password the flashed orange screen then went black, i then left it for 5 minutes and no change.

i checked the md5 sums and they are correct and re burnt it at 4x and no change

[Was fixed by removing compiz]

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report, what videocard do you use?

[Bhoemen (bhoemen)]

A pretty old one, it is included in the motherboard an intel on i think and back from around 2002/2003

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Hi bhoemen,

Please attach the output of `lspci -vvnn`, and attach your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file from after reproducing this issue. If you've made any customizations to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf please attach that as well.

[Bhoemen (bhoemen)]

i have now fixed the problem i went on some forums and a user told me to log in as terminal and remove compiz and compiz-core after i did this it worked

bhoemen@SGJEO-93556:~$ lspci -vvnn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface [8086:2560] (rev 01)
 Subsystem: Trigem Computer Inc. Device [109f:3189]
 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Latency: 0
 Region 0: Memory at ec000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel
 Kernel modules: intel-agp

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device [8086:2562] (rev 01)
 Subsystem: Trigem Computer Inc. Device [109f:3189]
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Latency: 0
 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
 Region 0: Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
 Region 1: Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel modules: intelfb

00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:24c2] (rev 01)
 Subsystem: Trigem Computer Inc. Device [109f:3189]
 Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Latency: 0
 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
 Region 4: I/O ports at 1800 [size=32]
 Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
 Kernel modules: uhci-hcd

00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:24c4] (rev 01)
 Subsystem: Trigem Computer Inc. Device [109f:3189]
 Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Latency: 0
 Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 19
 Region 4: I/O ports at 1820 [size=32]
 Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
 Kernel modules: uhci-hcd

00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:24c7] (rev 01)
 Subsystem: Trigem Computer Inc. Device [109f:3189]
 Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Latency: 0
 Interrupt: pin C routed to IRQ 18
 Region 4: I/O ports at 1840 [size=32]
 Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
 Kernel modules: uhci-hcd

00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:24cd] (rev 01) (prog-if 20)
 Subsystem: Trigem Computer Inc. Device [109f:3189]
 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+...

[Paul Dufresne (paulduf)]

Marking xorg-server task as Confirmed to let an X developer check (but my guess is that it is linked to compiz, so I'll open a new task on Compiz).

[Paul Dufresne (paulduf)]

It should be retested on latest Jaunty to make sure the issue still happens there with the latest code. ISO images are available at http://cdimages.ubuntu.com/daily/current/ - if you can reproduce it in the LiveCD environment, you shouldn't need to modify your installed system.

[Paul Dufresne (paulduf)]

This really seems to be a duplicate of bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/259385

It seems to have been fixed in Intrepid (at least with Proposed).
"Accepted into intrepid-proposed, please test and give feedback here. Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!"

[Paul Dufresne (paulduf)]

Ah sorry, forget about enable Proposed, it is in 'normal' updates now.
But it looks like their fix was just to disable compiz on that chipset (integrated video card).
At least if I understood correctly.