[i915gm] (Needs kernel 2.6.33) (Needs intel 2.10) [i915gm] XV Overlay adapter not available on Intel 915GM

[km]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-intel

With an Intel 915GM on Ubuntu 9.10 I get the Textured Video XV adapter even though the chip supports Overlay Video.
On previous versions of Ubuntu I was able to force the Overlay support with one of

        Option "TexturedVideo" "false
        Option "XvPreferOverlay" "true"

The first (an older option) fails with a log entry of

(WW) intel(0): Option "TexturedVideo" is not used

The second (which worked in 9.04) is accepted

(**) intel(0): Option "XvPreferOverlay" "true"

but the only thing set up is

(II) intel(0): Set up textured video

xvinfo shows

X-Video Extension version 2.2
screen #0
  Adaptor #0: "Intel(R) Textured Video"
    number of ports: 16
    port base: 86
    operations supported: PutImage
    supported visuals:
      depth 24, visualID 0x21
    number of attributes: 3
      "XV_BRIGHTNESS" (range -128 to 127)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 0)
      "XV_CONTRAST" (range 0 to 255)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 0)
      "XV_SYNC_TO_VBLANK" (range -1 to 1)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 1)
    maximum XvImage size: 2048 x 2048
    Number of image formats: 5
      id: 0x32595559 (YUY2)
        guid: 59555932-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71
        bits per pixel: 16
        number of planes: 1
        type: YUV (packed)
      id: 0x32315659 (YV12)
        guid: 59563132-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71
        bits per pixel: 12
        number of planes: 3
        type: YUV (planar)
      id: 0x30323449 (I420)
        guid: 49343230-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71
        bits per pixel: 12
        number of planes: 3
        type: YUV (planar)
      id: 0x59565955 (UYVY)
        guid: 55595659-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71
        bits per pixel: 16
        number of planes: 1
        type: YUV (packed)
      id: 0x434d5658 (XVMC)
        guid: 58564d43-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71
        bits per pixel: 12
        number of planes: 3
        type: YUV (planar)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Nov 8 20:01:53 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
MachineType: FUJITSU LifeBook S7020
Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.9.0-1ubuntu2
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=7b393dc4-9e6e-4a0a-9d50-f435e32440e2 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu9
 libgl1-mesa-glx 7.6.0-1ubuntu4
 libdrm2 2.4.14-1ubuntu1
 xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.9.0-1ubuntu2
 xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.99+git20090929.7968e1fb-0ubuntu1
SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-video-intel
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:26329): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:26329): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (nautilus:26376): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:26406): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
dmi.bios.date: 09/16/2005
dmi.bios.vendor: FUJITSU // Phoenix Technologies Ltd.
dmi.bios.version: Version 1.07
dmi.board.name: FJNB19C
dmi.board.vendor: FUJITSU
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: AUUBE1AAA3322010
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnFUJITSU//PhoenixTechnologiesLtd.:bvrVersion1.07:bd09/16/2005:svnFUJITSU:pnLifeBookS7020:pvr:rvnFUJITSU:rnFJNB19C:rvr:cvnAUUBE1AAA3322010:ct10:cvr:
dmi.product.name: LifeBook S7020
dmi.sys.vendor: FUJITSU
fglrx: Not loaded
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 architecture: i686kernel: 2.6.31-14-generic

[lspci]
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller [8086:2592] (rev 03)
     Subsystem: Fujitsu Limited. Device [10cf:12de]

[Robert Hooker (sarvatt)]

Unfortunately KMS overlay support requires a 2.6.33 kernel and xserver-xorg-video-intel 2.10 or higher. If you want to use the overlay on karmic which has KMS enabled by default you need to boot with i915.modeset=0 added to your kernel command line and it will work.

[Robert Hooker (sarvatt)]

Alternatively, you can use a 2.6.33 kernel from the kernel PPA
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/

and the packages from xorg-edgers PPA.
https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa

to have overlay support on karmic or lucid. This most likely will not be fixed until lucid+1 because we are planning on using intel 2.9.1 in lucid because 2.10 drops support for UMS.

[Stefan Glasenhardt (glasen)]

This bug should be closed :

- The Lucid kernel has a backported version of the drm-stack from kernel-version 2.6.33 and supports XV-overlay
- The Lucid Intel video driver supports the Xv-overlay mode since version number "2:2.9.1-3ubuntu1"

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

Marking as fixed. The above comment is correct. If these things aren't working as expected on a fully up-to-date Lucid, please feel free to reopen.