Comment 8 for bug 1389904

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Aere Greenway (aere) wrote : Re: [Bug 1389904] Re: With the recent update to xserver-xorg-video-intel, system boots to a black screen

On 11/06/2014 11:37 AM, Walter Lapchynski wrote:
> It appears that this affects a very specific chip. That being said, I
> can't do much to help diagnose this. With that in mind, it would be
> useful to find out exactly what conditions are required for this to
> occur. Is it only that particular package? It should be tested across
> different OS versions and flavors. Also, what other chips this may apply
> to. It's clearly a regression of some kind because it did work, but I
> can't push this upstream without adequate information.
>
> ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu)
> Status: Confirmed => Incomplete
>
> ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => High
>
Walter:

I posted this information as an addition to the bug-report, but in case
you didn't see it there, I am including it in this e-mail also:

An lspci command on this machine yields the following information:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82815 815 Chipset Host Bridge and Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82815 Chipset Graphics Controller (CGC) (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801BA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801BA IDE U100 Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.4 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM USB Controller #1 (rev 02)
02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM/CA/CAM Ethernet Controller (rev 01)
02:09.0 USB controller: NEC Corporation OHCI USB Controller (rev 43)
02:09.1 USB controller: NEC Corporation OHCI USB Controller (rev 43)
02:09.2 USB controller: NEC Corporation uPD72010x USB 2.0 Controller (rev 04)
02:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 06)
02:0a.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! Game Port (rev 06)

sysinfo yields the following information about the graphics card:

VGA compatible controller
       Intel Corporation 82815 Chipset Graphics Controller (CGC) (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
       Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation Device 001a

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Sincerely,
Aere