[i965gm] Laptop display all in black stripes after update to kernel 2.6.31-16

[Alexander Kabakow]

All works fine on previous kernels... for example kernel 2.6.31-15 works.

Laptop Toshiba satellite L300-144 with integrated intel video adapter...

Using latest kdm and Kde 4 from karmik repos.

About 2 weeks ago 9.04 upgraded to 9.10.
(
  There was some problems during upgrade python modules.
  https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mapnik/+bug/489943
)

When i boot up using kernel 2.6.31-16 all fine before kdm(or X11?) starts.
Then i see many black stripes.
Image is same as normal but _highly_ corrupted. Work impossible.

When i switch to console (using Alt+F2) stripes still on screen.

ProblemType: Bug
AplayDevices:
 **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC268 Analog [ALC268 Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Architecture: i386
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: ak 2629 F.... kmix
                      ak 2641 F.... pulseaudio
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0x94300000 irq 22'
   Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC268'
   Components : 'HDA:10ec0268,1179ff64,00100003 HDA:14f12c06,14f10000,00100000'
   Controls : 17
   Simple ctrls : 11
DKDisksMonitorLog: Monitoring activity from the disks daemon. Press Ctrl+C to cancel.
Date: Sat Dec 5 21:14:16 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=7501d607-b2e7-45c6-a548-0d90d090ac2d
HotplugNewDevices:

HotplugNewMounts:

MachineType: TOSHIBA Satellite L300
Package: linux-image-2.6.31-15-generic 2.6.31-15.50
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=a949ac83-9a73-4e03-a3a4-b794ecd5debb ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-15.50-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 linux-backports-modules-2.6.31-15-generic N/A
 linux-firmware 1.25
RfKill:
 0: phy0: Wireless LAN
  Soft blocked: no
  Hard blocked: no
SourcePackage: linux
Symptom: storage
UdevMonitorLog:
 monitor will print the received events for:
 UDEV - the event which udev sends out after rule processing
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-15-generic i686
WpaSupplicantLog:

XsessionErrors: (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2621): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
dmi.bios.date: 03/19/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: INSYDE
dmi.bios.version: 1.30
dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag
dmi.board.name: Base Board Product Name
dmi.board.vendor: Intel Corp.
dmi.board.version: Base Board Version
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag
dmi.chassis.type: 1
dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacturer
dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnINSYDE:bvr1.30:bd03/19/2008:svnTOSHIBA:pnSatelliteL300:pvrPSLB0E-034012RU:rvnIntelCorp.:rnBaseBoardProductName:rvrBaseBoardVersion:cvnChassisManufacturer:ct1:cvrChassisVersion:
dmi.product.name: Satellite L300
dmi.product.version: PSLB0E-034012RU
dmi.sys.vendor: TOSHIBA

[lspci]
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub [8086:2a00] (rev 03)
     Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:ff64]
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2a02] (rev 03)
     Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:ff64]

[Alexander Kabakow (alexzak)]

Yesterday i turn off laptop. No reconfiguration, no updates installed.
Today 9.10 on kernel 2.6.31-15 shows same issue.

So now i can't work on kernels 2.6.31-*. (recovery mode shows same issue)

kernel 2.6.28-16 show "ubuntu running on low graphics mode" dialog and i can't reconfigure system using it.

So now Ubuntu 9.10 is dead :'(

I boot up Ubuntu 8.10 from second hdd on same hardware... every thing works....

Can anyone help me?
What should i do?

[Alexander Kabakow (alexzak)]

Tried i915.modeset=0 as boot option as described at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/KernelModeSetting

stripes is missing. But there are errors : (EE) config/hal: couldn't initialise context: unknown error (null)

So i think "stripes" problem in KMS...

[Alexander Kabakow (alexzak)]

using boot options i915.modeset=0 and vga=771 I've boot up and :
generated new xorg.conf for my hardware
completely removed kdm package
reconfigure gdm package

reboot with boot options i915.modeset=0 and vga=771 -> works

reboot with boot options i915.modeset=1 and vga=771 -> works, but gdm shows message box like this : "power manager unable to use HAL"

How HAL and KMS connected?

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage , so I have classified this bug as a bug in xserver-xorg-video-intel package.

[Chris Wilson (ickle)]

It's clearly a modesetting error, but which it is difficult to say with the limited information. So I'm going to assert that it has been fixed and wait for evidence otherwise.