8086:3582 blank screen and complete lockup when X starts on Intel 855GM Chipset

[Martin]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-intel

Happens with lucid default kernel 2.6.32-21-generic, need to start failsafeX there.

Using old karmic default kernel 2.6.31-20-generic, X starts but refrains using DRI which it did on karmic.

Might be due to kernel module i915?

So, besides the lockup, how to tell the X driver not to disable DRI? (Also lucid kernel deactivates kernel modesetting for i915.)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.9.1-3ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686
Architecture: i386
BootDmesg:

Date: Sun Apr 18 19:11:01 2010
DkmsStatus: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Lsusb:
 Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 002 Device 002: ID 046d:c01b Logitech, Inc. MX310 Optical Mouse
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
MachineType: MTC Montara-GML
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-generic root=UUID=260f888b-e25c-42e1-b3a6-474579cbee3b ro single
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-video-intel
XorgLog:

XorgLogOld:

dmi.bios.date: 06/09/2004
dmi.bios.vendor: Insyde Software Corporation
dmi.bios.version: R1.07
dmi.board.name: Montara-GML
dmi.board.vendor: MTC
dmi.board.version: FAB-2
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: 12345678
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: MTC
dmi.chassis.version: A1
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnInsydeSoftwareCorporation:bvrR1.07:bd06/09/2004:svnMTC:pnMontara-GML:pvrFAB-2:rvnMTC:rnMontara-GML:rvrFAB-2:cvnMTC:ct8:cvrA1:
dmi.product.name: Montara-GML
dmi.product.version: FAB-2
dmi.sys.vendor: MTC
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 codename: lucid
 architecture: i686
 kernel: 2.6.32-21-generic

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

Can you please try booting, adding “i915.modeset=1” to the kernel boot line? We've disabled KMS by default in the hopes of fixing another serious crash bug on the i855 chip, and this bug may be an unexpected consequence of that change.

[alex859 (alex859)]

I tried and it works. But there is still another problem. It's not possible to use graphical effects. Moreover, when I resume from standby the system is unusable because all fonts are invisible.

[Martin (wortheld)]

- i915.modeset=1 fixes KMS, kernel log clean, no problems

- X.org intel driver automatically disables DRI, (WW) me about i845/855 hardware. How do I persuade him to play it risky? (Quite a lot of DRI things were stable in karmic.)

- plymouth seems to not get through, no visible output but cursor, just init telling me in daemon log that plymouth-stop pre-start process terminated with status 1. Will file another report against that.

[Martin (wortheld)]

- plymouth bug report is https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/567249
- it was reassigned to a bug seeming duplicate of this one here and to this package
- will re-reassign it to linux since it seems to be kernel problem then

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

There is no way to re-enable DRI in the existing patch. However, since
it seems that none of the work arounds we have been able to try fix it
for everyone - and indeed all seem to introduce equally serious problems
for a different set of people - we'll be dropping the DRI disablement
patch before release and document all the various workarounds different
people have found.

[alex859 (alex859)]

The hack of putting i915.modeset=1 to the kernel boot line is not necessary using driver version 2.11 from http://ppa.launchpad.net/glasen/intel-driver/ubuntu repository. This upgrade also solved the visual effects problem.
This is extracted from my lspci output:

VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)

[Calvin.Ngei (calvin-ngei)]

This is a duplicate of bug #568779.

[MilchFlasche (robertus0617)]

Hi alex, I have added the PPA as you told, however the 2.11 driver depends on libdrm-intel1 >= 2.4.18+git, which is not available. Did you also encountered this warning, or did you just ignored it and installed the driver any way?