[i830] screen map corruption

[jedix]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-intel

Kdm starts with the right portion of the screen cut off and it shows up on the left.

After login, the problem remains until I switch to a console and then back to X.

This is on an X30 with intel 830

lspci -vv output:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82830 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller] (rev 04)
        Subsystem: IBM Device 0513
        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 11
        Region 0: Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
        Region 1: Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: i915
        Kernel modules: i915

Other problems I see which may or may not be related:
3D is very slow: less than 600 fps on glxgears
redraw of windows is very slow when switching between applications
enabling "Desktop Effects" causes X to not start for that user. (hangs on the splash screen after the first icon appears.

This might be a setup issue.. but I don't think it is likely as I let the packages handle all my setup.

I'm up to date on karmic as of Aug 20th, 2009

Output of ubuntu-bug -p xserver-xorg-video-intel:

$ ubuntu-bug -p xserver-xorg-video-intel
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/apport/apport-kde", line 454, in <module>
    UserInterface = MainUserInterface()
  File "/usr/share/apport/apport-kde", line 178, in __init__
    self.run_argv()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 430, in run_argv
    return self.run_report_bug()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 343, in run_report_bug
    self.collect_info(symptom_script)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 537, in collect_info
    self.ui_start_info_collection_progress()
  File "/usr/share/apport/apport-kde", line 330, in ui_start_info_collection_progress
    _('The collected information can be sent to the developers '
  File "/usr/share/apport/apport-kde", line 112, in __init__
    Dialog.__init__(self, 'progress.ui', title, heading, text)
  File "/usr/share/apport/apport-kde", line 60, in __init__
    uic.loadUi(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(sys.argv[0]), ui), self)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/PyQt4/uic/__init__.py", line 112, in loadUi
    return DynamicUILoader().loadUi(uifile, baseinstance)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/PyQt4/uic/Loader/loader.py", line 8, in __init__
    UIParser.__init__(self, QtCore, QtGui, LoaderCreatorPolicy())
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/PyQt4/uic/uiparser.py", line 87, in __init__
    self.factory = QObjectCreator(creatorPolicy)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/PyQt4/uic/objcreator.py", line 43, in __init__
    if load_plugin(open(os.path.join(plugindir, filename)), plugin_globals, plugin_locals):
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/share/python-qt4/widget-plugins/kde4.py'

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu karmic (development branch)
Release: 9.10

What I expect to happen and what happens is pretty obvious.

I'd like to thank you guys for fixing these issues even though the hardware is old.

[Geir Ove Myhr (gomyhr)]

Thank you for filing this bug report. Could you file the failure of ubuntu-bug as a bug for the apport program? https://bugs.launchpad.net/apport/

The log files that would normally be a part of the ubuntu-bug report can be uploaded with `apport-collect 416707`, and if that fails you can upload at least /var/log/Xorg.0.log, /etc/X11/xorg.conf (if present), ~/.config/monitors.xml (if present), and the outputs of `lspci -vvnn`, `xrandr --verbose`, and `dmesg`.

[jedix (howlett)]

Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Lsusb:
 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 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
MachineType: IBM 2673AU7
Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.8.0-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
 Socket 1:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
 Socket 1:
   no card
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=3c6d3530-41d5-4339-8d50-507fbd197811 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-6.25-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu5
 libgl1-mesa-glx 7.5-1ubuntu1
 libdrm2 2.4.12-1ubuntu1
 xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.8.0-0ubuntu2
 xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.99+git20090629.f39cafc5-0ubuntu6
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-6-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
XorgConf: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/X11/xorg.conf'
dmi.bios.date: 05/30/2003
dmi.bios.vendor: IBM
dmi.bios.version: 1KET44WW (1.05 )
dmi.board.name: 2673AU7
dmi.board.vendor: IBM
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: IBM
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnIBM:bvr1KET44WW(1.05):bd05/30/2003:svnIBM:pn2673AU7:pvrNotAvailable:rvnIBM:rn2673AU7:rvrNotAvailable:cvnIBM:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 2673AU7
dmi.product.version: Not Available
dmi.sys.vendor: IBM
fglrx: Not loaded
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 architecture: i686kernel: 2.6.31-6-generic

[jedix (howlett)]

Would this cause degraded performance? Switching between windows takes seconds during redraw. Or would this be due to another problem/hardware limitations?

[jedix (howlett)]

I updated today and now my laptop is useless. The X11 that is now installed does not get fixed when switching from terminal back to X. My X server blinks like a strobe light.

[jedix (howlett)]

Booted into an older kernel and the video works 100%,
2.6.28-14-generic is the working.

[jedix (howlett)]

fully upgraded to 9.10 stops the older kernel from working.

Adding nomodeset to grub fixes the issue.