[i845] 2.6.32-7 xorg boots to black screen with i845 graphics

[jerrylamos]

Binary package hint: xorg

This bug report is from running ubuntu-bug xorg when lucid 2.6.32-7 did manage to boot to desktop.

I'll attach apport from the more frequent boot which gets a black screen. I got the black screen apport from Ctrl-Alt-F1 which gets a text screen that allows saving the apport but won't run launchpad since it is in text mode.

I'll also attach Xorg.0.log and .xsession-errors.

Jerry

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
CurrentDmesg:
 [ 18.044754] usb 4-1: usbfs: interface 0 claimed by usblp while 'usb' sets config #1
 [ 22.944041] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
Date: Mon Dec 14 09:44:22 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20091127)
MachineType: IBM 819911U
Package: xorg 1:7.5~3ubuntu2
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-7-generic root=UUID=cff83aa1-4deb-40c6-a09d-6e3205e31d36 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-7.10-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 xserver-xorg 1:7.5~3ubuntu2
 libgl1-mesa-glx 7.6.1~rc2-1ubuntu1
 libdrm2 2.4.14-1ubuntu2
 xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.9.1-1ubuntu1
 xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.99+git20090929.7968e1fb-0ubuntu2
SourcePackage: xorg
Tags: lucid
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-7-generic i686
XorgConf: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/X11/xorg.conf'
dmi.bios.date: 06/03/2003
dmi.bios.vendor: IBM
dmi.bios.version: 24KT45AUS
dmi.board.name: IBM
dmi.board.vendor: IBM
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: �������������������������
dmi.chassis.type: 2
dmi.chassis.vendor: IBM
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnIBM:bvr24KT45AUS:bd06/03/2003:svnIBM:pn819911U:pvr:rvnIBM:rnIBM:rvr:cvnIBM:ct2:cvr:
dmi.product.name: 819911U
dmi.sys.vendor: IBM
fglrx: Not loaded
glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 architecture: i686kernel: 2.6.32-7-generic

[lspci]
 [ 0.151290] pci 0000:00:00.0: reg 10 32bit mmio pref: [0xd0000000-0xdfffffff]
 [ 2.150057] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: Intel 830M Chipset
 [ 2.150307] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: detected 8060K stolen memory
 [ 2.235927] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0x88000000
 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface [8086:2560] (rev 01)
 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device [8086:2562] (rev 01)
      Subsystem: IBM Device [1014:0267]
 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device [8086:2562] (rev 01)
      Subsystem: IBM Device [1014:0267]
 P: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:00.0
 E: DEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:00.0
 E: PCI_SLOT_NAME=0000:00:00.0
 KERNEL[1260802507.359174] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:00.0 (pci)
 DEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:00.0
 PCI_SLOT_NAME=0000:00:00.0
 UDEV [1260802507.379478] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:00.0 (pci)
 DEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:00.0
 PCI_SLOT_NAME=0000:00:00.0

[jerrylamos (jerrylamos)]

apport from last hang

[jerrylamos (jerrylamos)]

Xorg.0.log from last hang

[jerrylamos (jerrylamos)]

xsession errors from hang

[jerrylamos (jerrylamos)]

 2.6.32-8 today is much more solid, however when I try to select "Add comment" on launchpad nothing happens....

Thanks, Jerry

-----Original Message-----
From: Bryce Harrington <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Sent: Tue, Dec 15, 2009 8:10 am
Subject: [Bug 496551] Re: 2.6.32-7 xorg boots to black screen with i845 graphics

** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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2.6.32-7 xorg boots to black screen with i845 graphics
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[jerrylamos (jerrylamos)]

2.6.32-8 kernel much better. It's been up for a couple hours now.

Thanks, Jerry

[jerrylamos (jerrylamos)]

2.6.32-9 kernel booted to black screen for several days, see bug #499102. With yesterday's updates (using recovery mode fix broken packages) the kernel is booting O.K. this morning.

As of today working O.K. Will watch out for new updates....

Jerry

[jerrylamos (jerrylamos)]

Bug also appears with kernel 2-6-32-9, so I'm continuing investigation there under bug #499102. In the latter bug, xorg freezes shortly after boot example when entering a comment onto launchpad.

[jerrylamos (jerrylamos)]

Lucid dead black screen again today! On one or another of my test pc's with intel and ati video graphics I get black screen for weeks on Intrepid, Jaunty, Karmic, now Lucid.

Only way I got running today was to boot in recovery and manually key in:

nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "vesa"
EndSection

which at least functions.

In previous Ubuntu's there was a "safe" mode, or at least a scaffold xorg.conf to start with.

Brian Rogers on bug #406460 had some suggestion on something to try:

https://launchpad.net/~brian-rogers/+archive/graphics-testing

so I'll give it a go. Thanks.

Jerry

[jerrylamos (jerrylamos)]

Well, I got

The following packages have been kept back:
  xserver-xorg-video-intel
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.

Is that because this is lucid, not karmic?

Thanks, Jerry

[jerrylamos (jerrylamos)]

Oops, black screen hang. The xserver-xorg-video-intel being kept back likely?

Booted recovery mode, command line,
nano # the ppa lines, apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade,
now booted with "vesa".

Jerry

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

[This is an automatic notification.]

Thanks for reporting this bug to help making the Intel graphics driver
better. We hear from upstream that a number of bugs (possibly including
this one) have been fixed in the newer DRM code from the 2.6.33 kernel.
I don't know if your bug is one of the ones fixed in this release,
though, but we've prepared a PPA with this DRM update. Would you mind
installing this, rebooting, and testing if the original issue can be
reproduced with it or not?

The DRM PPA is here:

    https://edge.launchpad.net/~apw/+archive/red

Note there could be new bugs... please file these as new reports using
the command 'ubuntu-bug linux' (for kernel or DRM or KMS bugs) or
'ubuntu-bug xorg' if you suspect them to be X.org issues.

[jerrylamos (jerrylamos)]

Did not have any luck with
https://edge.launchpad.net/~apw/+archive/red

This gives:

jerry@Thinkpad:~$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ppa/red
Error reading https://launchpad.net/api/beta/~ppa/+archive/red: HTTP Error 404: Not Found

Maybe ppa/red isn't in the beta archive?

Jerry

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

On Sat, 2010-03-20 at 18:07 +0000, jerrylamos wrote:
> Did not have any luck with
> https://edge.launchpad.net/~apw/+archive/red
>
> This gives:
>
> jerry@Thinkpad:~$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ppa/red
> Error reading https://launchpad.net/api/beta/~ppa/+archive/red: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
>
> Maybe ppa/red isn't in the beta archive?
       ^^^^^^^^
It isn't, it's apw/red that you were after.

However, that testing repository is no longer interesting, as the 2.6.33
drm stack has been added to the 2.6.32-16 kernel.

Could you please test with the current 2.6.32-16 (or newer) kernel?

[jerrylamos (jerrylamos)]

O.K., booted with:

Linux version 2.6.32-17-generic (buildd@vernadsky) (gcc version 4.4.3 (Ubuntu 4.4.3-3ubuntu3) ) #26-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 19 23:58:53 UTC 2010

in KMS mode and default intel xorg.

Running O.K. No incidence of bug yet.

Thanks much, Jerry