Broken graphics on Ubuntu mate 17.10 on EeePC 901X

[inugami]

I have upgraded 17.04 to 17.10 Ubuntu Mate.

The graphic is broken as shown below.

https://imgur.com/a/t0y9L
https://imgur.com/gallery/o8I7F

Partial screen (1/6 right) working correctly.

recovery mode is working fine.

I found 4.13.0-12-generic and 4.13.0-11-generic kernel has broken graphics.

In recovery mode, I could select 800x600 only.

The correct resolution is 1024x600 for my EeePC, but this resolution is broken.

[inugami (inugami-mamoru)]

Here is the output of xrandr.

Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 1024 x 600, maximum 32767 x 32767
LVDS1 connected primary 1024x600+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 190mm x 110mm
   1024x600 60.00*+
   800x600 60.32 56.25
   640x480 59.94
   512x300 60.00
VGA1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
VIRTUAL1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

[inugami (inugami-mamoru)]

Here is the output of lshw.

  *-display:0
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: Mobile 945GSE Express Integrated Graphics Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
       version: 03
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
       resources: irq:16 memory:f7f00000-f7f7ffff ioport:dc80(size=8) memory:d0000000-dfffffff memory:f7ec0000-f7efffff memory:c0000-dffff
  *-display:1 UNCLAIMED
       description: Display controller
       product: Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2.1
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.1
       version: 03
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: memory:f7f80000-f7ffffff

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[inugami (inugami-mamoru)]

Maybe Plymouth or Xorg.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

This screenshot shows an X session, so is definitely not a Plymouth bug.

[inugami (inugami-mamoru)]

Desktop graphics completely broken after update of mate-core and mate-desktop.

The graphic was black screen and shows "X" mouse cursor only.

[inugami (inugami-mamoru)]

May be also related to mate-core.

[gonssal (gonssal)]

I can confirm this issue. Happening to me with Kubuntu after upgrading.

To me it seems clearly due to the 4.13 kernel's Intel graphics driver. If I switch to the old 4.10 kernel, everything works fine.

[Eduard (eddy-spageddy)]

This bug is identical to bug #1724639

@Mods please merge the two bug-reports.
Morever, also other Linux distros confirm that there is a problem with the Intel Mobile Graphics and Kernel 4.13, e.g. Opensuse :
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1058870