X doesn't work with i915 driver

[Andrew Kornilov]

We tried to install 10.10 Desktop on the ASUS A52F notebook and failed.
Installation process went without any problems, but after restart X didn't start.
I tried to run it by using startx and so on, then i discovered a problem and found the same, reported there:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9997946

i915: gave up waiting for init of module intel_agp
i915: Unknown symbol intel_agp_enabled (err -16)

It seems to me that i915 kernel module has been incorrectly built or some modules aren't being loaded.

The hardware is Intel GMA HD.

[Andrew Kornilov (akornilov)]

I've been googling/reading lots of information, found similar problems, then discovered kernel OOPS with intel_ips module:

   1.
      [ 5.985278] Pid: 408, comm: modprobe Not tainted 2.6.35-22-generic #35-Ubuntu K52F/K52F
   2.
      [ 5.985370] EIP: 0060:[<f81da452>] EFLAGS: 00010286 CPU: 1
   3.
      [ 5.985433] EIP is at ips_detect_cpu+0x62/0x180 [intel_ips]
   4.
      [ 5.985498] EAX: 00c800c8 EBX: 00000000 ECX: 00c800c8 EDX: 00000000
   5.
      [ 5.985562] ESI: f5bbfe04 EDI: f69ae500 EBP: f5bbfe14 ESP: f5bbfde4
   6.
      [ 5.985626] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068
   7.
      [ 5.985688] Process modprobe (pid: 408, ti=f5bbe000 task=f5ac7230 task.ti=f5bbe000)
   8.
      [ 5.985778] Stack:
   9.
      [ 5.986569] f81dbefc f81dbe9e f70b6c00 f5bbfe14 c020c441 f5bbfe08 c05c79e9 f81daeef
  10.
      [ 5.986810] <0> 00000000 f69ae500 f7168000 fffffff4 f5bbfe4c f81daf2a c027165d f5bbfe4c
  11.
      [ 5.987123] <0> c0270c07 f5bbfe4c c027100a f5bbfe38 f7168000 f7168060 c036bb3e f7168000
  12.
      [ 5.987485] Call Trace:
  13.
      [ 5.987548] [<c020c441>] ? kmem_cache_alloc_notrace+0x91/0xb0
  14.
      [ 5.987617] [<c05c79e9>] ? mutex_lock+0x19/0x40
  15.
      [ 5.987677] [<f81daeef>] ? ips_probe+0x1f/0x690 [intel_ips]
  16.
      [ 5.987744] [<f81daf2a>] ? ips_probe+0x5a/0x690 [intel_ips]
  17.
      [ 5.987809] [<c027165d>] ? sysfs_add_one+0x1d/0x110
  18.
      [ 5.987872] [<c0270c07>] ? sysfs_new_dirent+0x67/0x100
  19.
      [ 5.987934] [<c027100a>] ? sysfs_addrm_finish+0x1a/0xb0
  20.
      [ 5.988001] [<c036bb3e>] ? pci_match_device+0xbe/0xd0
  21.
      [ 5.988062] [<c036b9d3>] ? local_pci_probe+0x13/0x20
  22.
      [ 5.988125] [<c036c988>] ? pci_device_probe+0x68/0x90
  23.
      [ 5.988188] [<c0400540>] ? really_probe+0x50/0x150
  24.
      [ 5.988253] [<c0407bb7>] ? pm_runtime_barrier+0x57/0xb0
  25.
      [ 5.988316] [<c040067c>] ? driver_probe_device+0x3c/0x60
  26.
      [ 5.988379] [<c0400721>] ? __driver_attach+0x81/0x90
  27.
      [ 5.988441] [<c03ffb43>] ? bus_for_each_dev+0x53/0x80
  28.
      [ 5.988504] [<c040040e>] ? driver_attach+0x1e/0x20
  29.
      [ 5.988565] [<c04006a0>] ? __driver_attach+0x0/0x90
  30.
      [ 5.988625] [<c03ffdd5>] ? bus_add_driver+0xd5/0x280
  31.
      [ 5.988686] [<c036c8c0>] ? pci_device_remove+0x0/0x40
  32.
      [ 5.988751] [<c0400a1a>] ? driver_register+0x6a/0x130
  33.
      [ 5.988812] [<c036cbc5>] ? __pci_register_driver+0x45/0xb0
  34.
      [ 5.988878] [<f81df017>] ? ips_init+0x17/0x19 [intel_ips]
  35.
      [ 5.988942] [<c0101132>] ? do_one_initcall+0x32/0x1a0
  36.
      [ 5.989006] [<f81df000>] ? ips_init+0x0/0x19 [intel_ips]
  37.
      [ 5.989074] [<c0180c2b>] ? sys_init_module+0x9b/0x1e0
  38.
      [ 5.989140] [<c0218fa2>] ? sys_write+0x42/0x70
  39.
      [ 5.989201] [<c05c9114>] ? syscall_call+0x7/0xb
  40.
      [ 5.989262] Code: 1e f5 c7 90 ba f5 bd 1d f8 b8 0c 52 81 c0 e8 a6 f6 17 c8 bb 80 c4 1d f8 85 c0 74 35 b8 ac 01 00 00 89 f2 e8 b1 1e f5 c7 90 89 c1 <8b> 53 08 c1 e1 12 c1 e
  41.
      9 15 69 c1...

[Ivan (trurl-master)]

Same with Lenovo IdeaPad B560A in Maverick. Intel GMA HD.

[Tor Arne Pedersen (tor-pedersen)]

Confirming this bug also affects HP ProBook 4320s.

[Stanislav Malkin (malkin-stanislav)]

same here: Lenovo Edge 15. Blacklisting helped to avoid problem.

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

Hi Andrew,

Please be sure to confirm this issue exists with the latest development release of Ubuntu. ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily/current/ . If the issue remains, please run the following command from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report.

apport-collect -p linux 665097

Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results.

Thanks in advance.

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[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

This bug report was marked as Incomplete and has not had any updated comments for quite some time. As a result this bug is being closed. Please reopen if this is still an issue in the current Ubuntu development release http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ . Also, please be sure to provide any requested information that may have been missing. To reopen the bug, click on the current status under the Status column and change the status back to "New". Thanks.

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[Richard Logan (richard-logan)]

Bug also affects Lenovo G560, after fresh install of Ubuntu 10.10 I could not get to gui login .

At text login I could login but the login process would keep stalling during loading.

Rebooted out of there and blacklisted intel_ips within the blacklist.conf file and all appears to working just fine