Xorg falls back to VESA on intel hardware

[FriedChicken]

On Karmic the X-Server falls back to VESA mode. It has worked some updates before.

Xorg.0.log says:

   [...]
(--) PCI:*(0@0:2:0) Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller rev 3, Mem @ 0xb0080000/524288, 0xc0000000/268435456, 0xb0040000/262144, I/O @ 0x00001800/8
(II) Open ACPI successful (/var/run/acpid.socket)
(II) System resource ranges:
 [0] -1 0 0xffffffff - 0xffffffff (0x1) MX[B]
 [1] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B]
 [2] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B]
 [3] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B]
 [4] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B]
 [5] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x00000000 (0x1) IX[B]
   [...]
(II) LoadModule: "dri2"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libdri2.so
(II) Module dri2: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
 compiled for 1.6.0, module version = 1.0.0
 ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 2.0
(II) Loading extension DRI2
(II) Scanning /usr/share/xserver-xorg/pci directory for additional PCI ID's supported by the drivers
(II) No matches found for this device in /usr/share/xserver-xorg/pci
(==) Registering 'vesa' as fallback
(==) Matched vesa for the autoconfigured driver
(==) Assigned the driver to the xf86ConfigLayout
(II) LoadModule: "vesa"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//vesa_drv.so
(II) Module vesa: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
 compiled for 1.6.0, module version = 2.2.0
 Module class: X.Org Video Driver
 ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 5.0
(II) VESA: driver for VESA chipsets: vesa
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 00@00:02:0
(II) resource ranges after probing:
 [0] -1 0 0xffffffff - 0xffffffff (0x1) MX[B]
 [1] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B]
 [2] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B]
 [3] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B]
 [4] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B]
 [5] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x00000000 (0x1) IX[B]
   [...]
(II) VESA(0): initializing int10
(II) VESA(0): Bad V_BIOS checksum
(II) VESA(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000
(II) VESA(0): VESA BIOS detected
(II) VESA(0): VESA VBE Version 3.0
(II) VESA(0): VESA VBE Total Mem: 7872 kB
(II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM: Intel(r) 82945GM Chipset Family Graphics Chip Accelerated VGA BIOS
(II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM Software Rev: 1.0
(II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM Vendor: Intel Corporation
(II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM Product: Intel(r) 82945GM Chipset Family Graphics Controller
(II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM Product Rev: Hardware Version 0.0
(II) VESA(0): Creating default Display subsection in Screen section
 "Default Screen" for depth/fbbpp 24/32
(==) VESA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
   [...]

[FriedChicken (domlyons)]

I've reset xorg.conf by sudo dpkg-recongigure x-server-xorg so full auto hardware detection is enabled.

Seems as if a fitting ids-file in /usr/share/xserver-xorg/pci is missing.

[Andreas Schildbach (schildbach)]

Confirmed on i915GMS. My PCI device IDs:

00:02.0 0300: 8086:2592 (rev 03)
00:02.1 0380: 8086:2792 (rev 03)

[FriedChicken (domlyons)]

Works with xorg-xedgers PPA. After installing this package there's a previous missing "intel.ids"-file.

[Andreas Schildbach (schildbach)]

Indeed, the intel.ids file is missing. Restoring it from the previous version of the driver (2.7.0-1ubuntu2) solves the problem temporarily.

[Juan Sebastián Marulanda (juanchito2006)]

Noticed this issue also, how do I restore the missing file?
Hope this gets a fixed update.

[Robert Hooker (sarvatt)]

debian dropped 01_gen_pci_ids.diff from xserver-xorg-video-intel and it was lost during the sync to debian unstable but is still needed on ubuntu.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

The culprit is patch 143_default_to_vesa.patch in xorg-server, which breaks autoconfiguration. I'll disable it for now.

[FriedChicken (domlyons)]

Are there no side effects disabling the whole patch? For example bug #261977.

Wouldn't it be a better option to add missing ids-files?

[Juan Sebastián Marulanda (juanchito2006)]

That patch was made to ensure there was a graphic environment even if there weren't supported drivers, the fix should be done on the missing file.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

the patch will be fixed later

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package xorg-server - 2:1.6.1.901-2ubuntu1

---------------
xorg-server (2:1.6.1.901-2ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian unstable.
  * Dropped patches:
    - obsolete:
      100_xserver_exa_force_greedy.patch
      107_fedora_dont_backfill_bg_none.patch
    - upstream:
      163_thinko_in_xf86targetpreferred.patch
      171_xkb_geometry_copying.patch
      173_edid_quirk_philips_lcd.patch
      175_set_pointer_screen_in_xtestfakeinput.patch
      176_quell_warning_exacopydirty.patch
    - included by Debian: 999_default_modedebug_on.patch
  * Disable 143_default_to_vesa.patch for now, breaks autoconfiguration
    when the pci-ids directory exists but has no match. (LP: #379504)
  * Disable SELinux support for now, because libaudit-dev needs to be
    moved to main first.

xorg-server (2:1.6.1.901-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Merge from upstream server-1.6-branch (commit a9f85dce).
  * Fix FTBFS on kfreebsd (closes: #525475). Thanks, Petr Salinger!

xorg-server (2:1.6.1.901-1) experimental; urgency=low

  * New upstream development release
    + fixes crash in CheckMotion with xinerama (closes: #524853)
    + Refresh 20_hurd-i386.diff

  [ Brice Goglin ]
  * Add 20_hurd-i386.diff to fix FTBFS on hurd-i386,
    thanks Samuel Thibault! (closes: #523970)

  [ David Nusinow ]
  * Have the reportbug script append lshal and drm info.
    The drm info comes from grepping dmesg output.

  [ Julien Cristau ]
  * Properly initialize libgcrypt in the libgcrypt patch (closes: #524822).
    Thanks, Sven Joachim!

xorg-server (2:1.6.1-1) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Julien Cristau ]
  * Disable dri2 on hurd-i386. Thanks, Samuel Thibault!

  [ Brice Goglin ]
  * New upstream release.

xorg-server (2:1.6.0-1) unstable; urgency=low

  [ David Nusinow ]
  * Add 0001-xorg.conf-5-refer-to-mousedrv-4-.-Debian-394058.patch to
    refer to correct (semi-obsolete) mouse driver manpage.
    closes: #394058

  [ Julien Cristau ]
  * New upstream release.
  * 0001-mi-force-the-paired-kbd-device-before-CopyKeyClass.patch: remove,
    included upstream.
  * Turn on ModeDebug by default.
  * Use libgcrypt for SHA1 instead of OpenSSL's libcrypto.
  * Build the xselinux extension on Linux architectures.
  * Remove build-dependencies on x11proto-evie-dev, x11proto-trap-dev,
    x11proto-xf86misc-dev; the corresponding extensions are removed.
  * Remove build-dependencies on x11proto-print-dev, libfreetype6-dev and
    xfonts-utils since we don't build Xprt anymore.
  * Fix lintian warnings about xserver-xorg-core.NEWS formatting.
  * Move -dbg package to new section debug, add ${misc:Depends} where missing.
  * Remove unused 06_use_proc_instead_of_sysfs_for_pci_domains.diff, obsoleted
    by pci-rework.
  * Merge changelog entries 2:1.4.2-9 to 2:1.4.2-11.
  * Upload to unstable.

 -- Timo Aaltonen <email address hidden> Sun, 24 May 2009 00:32:37 +0300