Comment 4 for bug 64666

I'm seeing identical problems.

Here its affecting two Sony Vaios: PCG-SRX41 and PCG-SRX51 (only difference is CPU clock and RAM) which are equivalent to the SRX99.

They have the Intel 82815 CGC rev 11 chipset with a native 1024x768 panel.

This is the default Edgy 6.10 (2.6.17-10) kernel install.

The GRUB splash image loads without a problem. The issue seems to be when the kernel is loading there is no graphical framebuffer.

Display is limited to a central rectangle of the screen and when the usplash screen displays all we see is vertical bands of white blocks that flicker (obviously as the splash screen progress indicator moves along the interpretation of the video memory in text mode causes the flicker).

When booting no graphical framebuffer appears to have been loaded. Neither vesafb nor i810fb load even when the GRUB boot command-line is edited to include:

video=vesfab:
video=i810fb:

(I've tried many different versions of those lines for differing resolutions, etc., as per the vesafb.txt and intel810.txt documenation).

The notebook will only offer TEXT modes.

Any use of "vga=xxx" where xxx represents a vaild graphics setting results in "You passed an undefined mode number" and offering of the text modes 0xF00-0xF07 (80x25 to 80x60)

From what I've read it appears that the initrd should contain the FB drivers because it is built with the "most" option by default.

After Gnome has started, running "usplash -c" from an xterm brings up the splash screen perfectly on tty7.

Is there a way to log or check what is going in with initrd ?