[i945] Visual Effects won't work with Dual Monitors and Intel 945GME

[David Dean]

Binary package hint: xorg

I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 on a HP 530 laptop with an Intel 945 GME integrated video card. Visual effects work fine on the laptop screen, but when I go dual-monitor I can't seem to enable visual effects.

Going into the Appearance dialog, setting visual effects appears to work (i.e. the screens flicker, no error message appears, and the radio button stays selected), but they don't actually get activated. When I go back to the Appearance dialog, the visual effects are set back on None.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: xorg 1:7.5+6ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-23.40-generic 2.6.35.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-23-generic i686
Architecture: i386
DRM.card0.LVDS.1:
 status: connected
 enabled: enabled
 dpms: On
 modes: 1280x800
 edid-base64: AP///////wANryYVAAAAAAkQAQOAIRV4CsapmldOhSYeUFIAAAABAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBvBsAoFAgFzAwIDYAS88QAAAYAAAA/gBOMTU0STItTDAyCiAgAAAA/gBDTU8KICAgICAgICAgAAAA/gBOMTU0STItTDAyCiAgAIg=
DRM.card0.VGA.1:
 status: connected
 enabled: enabled
 dpms: On
 modes: 1280x1024 1280x1024 1280x1024 1280x1024 1152x864 1024x768 1024x768 1024x768 832x624 800x600 800x600 800x600 640x480 640x480 640x480 640x480 720x400 640x350
 edid-base64: AP///////wAJ0aV2ZEEAABwQAQNsJh546m1molpMnSMTT1S974BxT4GQgYCBjAEBAQEBAQEBMCoAmFEAKkAwcBMAeC0RAAAe1QmAoCBeYxAQYFIIeC0RAAAaAAAA/QA4TB9TDgAKICAgICAgAAAA/ABCZW5RIEZQOTFHKwogAOA=
Date: Wed Dec 1 10:15:24 2010
DkmsStatus:
 virtualbox-ose, 3.2.8, 2.6.35-22-generic, i686: installed
 virtualbox-ose, 3.2.8, 2.6.35-23-generic, i686: installed
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
Lsusb:
 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: Hewlett-Packard HP 530 Notebook PC
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-23-generic root=UUID=45bb42a0-89a4-4104-ae9a-0da86e30fab4 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xorg
dmi.bios.date: 03/18/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.bios.version: 68MVU Ver. F.07
dmi.board.name: 30D5
dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.board.version: KBC Version 82.15
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvr68MVUVer.F.07:bd03/18/2008:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHP530NotebookPC:pvrF.07:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn30D5:rvrKBCVersion82.15:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct10:cvr:
dmi.product.name: HP 530 Notebook PC
dmi.product.version: F.07
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 codename: maverick
 architecture: i686
 kernel: 2.6.35-23-generic

[lspci]
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:27ae] (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
     Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:30d5]

[bugbot (bugbot)]

Hey David,

Thanks for your interest in Ubuntu.

Thanks for testing maverick during its development period. Unfortunately it looks like this bug report didn't get attention during the maverick development period. But I see there's not been more comments on the bug since the release, which makes me wonder if this is still an issue for you?

If you've not seen this issue since maverick's release yourself, it may have been solved by kernel or X or other updates that occurred late in the release; if so, would you mind please closing the bug for us? Go to the URL mentioned in this bug report, click the yellow icon(s) in the status column and set to 'Fix Released'.

If you no longer have the hardware needed to reproduce the problem, or otherwise feel the bug no longer needs tracked in Launchpad, you can set the status to 'Invalid'.

If you are the original reporter and still have this issue, just reply to this email saying so. (Or set the bug status to Confirmed.) If you are able to re-test this against 11.04 Natty Narwhal (our current development focus) and find the issue still affects Natty, please also run 'apport-collect <bug-number>' while running natty, which will add fresh logs and debug data, and flag it for the Ubuntu-X development team to look at.

[David Dean (ddean-ieee)]

Unfortunately I don't have this laptop anymore, so I can't test if this still is a problem under the latest Ubuntu version.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Since the hardware is no longer available for doing troubleshooting with, we'll have to close the bug for now. However please feel free to reopen if you or anyone else has the same HW and can reproduce this issue using the latest development version of Ubuntu and is willing to do some troubleshooting with it.