[arrandale] Video Crash and Corruption (Unusable)

[Gabriel]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-intel

I have a Sony Vaio VPCZ1 with an Intel Core i7, Intel Arrandale GMA HD and nVidia GT330M graphics. I have tried both the Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Beta 1 and the latest daily build (3/28, AMD64). When booting with the nVidia card selected, I get a black screen and a crash. When booting with the Intel card, I get a visible screen, however it is severely corrupted and unusable (Please see attached image). In Ubuntu 9.10, trying to use the Intel card results in a black screen with a few yellow vertical wavy lines and a hard crash.

If I boot with the "nomodeset" option, the computer will boot properly but X refuses to load the Intel driver due to lack of KMS. The VESA driver functions properly albeit at low resolution.

Please let me know if any additional information would be helpful.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Mar 28 18:09:45 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
DkmsStatus: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
GdmLog: Error: command ['cat', '/var/log/gdm/:0.log'] failed with exit code 1: cat: /var/log/gdm/:0.log: No such file or directory
GdmLog1: Error: command ['cat', '/var/log/gdm/:0.log.1'] failed with exit code 1: cat: /var/log/gdm/:0.log.1: No such file or directory
GdmLog2: Error: command ['cat', '/var/log/gdm/:0.log.2'] failed with exit code 1: cat: /var/log/gdm/:0.log.2: No such file or directory
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha amd64 (20100328)
MachineType: Sony Corporation VPCZ119FX
Package: xorg 1:7.5+3ubuntu1
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz noprompt cdrom-detect/try-usb=true file=/cdrom/preseed/hostname.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- maybe-ubiquity
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-17.26-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-17-generic x86_64
dmi.bios.date: 02/05/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: INSYDE
dmi.bios.version: R1180C3
dmi.board.asset.tag: N/A
dmi.board.name: VAIO
dmi.board.vendor: Sony Corporation
dmi.board.version: N/A
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: N/A
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Sony Corporation
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnINSYDE:bvrR1180C3:bd02/05/2010:svnSonyCorporation:pnVPCZ119FX:pvrA222GQ73:rvnSonyCorporation:rnVAIO:rvrN/A:cvnSonyCorporation:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: VPCZ119FX
dmi.product.version: A222GQ73
dmi.sys.vendor: Sony Corporation
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 codename: lucid
 architecture: x86_64
 kernel: 2.6.32-17-generic

[lspci]
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0046] (rev 02)
     Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device [104d:905a]

[Gabriel (gabriel-)]

Duplicate of bug on Freedesktop's Bugzilla:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27220

[Geir Ove Myhr (gomyhr)]

Thank you for spotting the upstream bug report, I was going to ask you to test with the xorg-edgers PPA since that has a newer driver and the issue could have been fixed there, but since the upstram report is with current git, that shouldn't be necessary. You may give kernel 2.6.34-rc1 or drm-intel-next from http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/?C=M;O=D a try, but I doubt it will work. But if it does, it will be valuable information for upstream. Information about the mainline kernels is available at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/MainlineBuilds .

[Gabriel (gabriel-)]

I have tried to boot with the latest packages from xorg-edgers (xorg 7.4+3, xserver-xorg-video-intel 2.10.903+git20100325) on the drm-intel-next AMD64 2.6.34 (3/20) Kernel, and all I get is a blank screened crash before the splash. I can boot as before with nomodeset and use the VESA drivers.

[ph0b (xh-novetys)]

I solved the blank screen crash issue by using grub1 instead of grub2, but there is still a problem with intel drivers, colors are wrong (unusable) : https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27220

[B Bobo (yout-bobo123)]

Half this report is about a hard crash with the nVidia card, which is not mentioned at all in https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27220
Therefore, I wonder if upstream is working on resolving only the other less serious issue of video corruption.

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

Could you please file a new bug - with “ubuntu-bug xorg” on the boot after you've experienced a crash - for your hard-crash, as you're clearly experiencing two bugs.

It would be useful if you could attach /var/log/messages to the new bug, as this will hopefully contain the kernel log for the failed boot. As /var/log/messages can sometimes contain sensitive information, you should mark the bug as “private” before attaching /var/log/messages.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

this particular bug has been fixed some time ago, closing.