[i845] display problem

[Rahul Ghose]

My monitor supports resolutions upto 1152x864 but ubuntu 10.10 Maveric Merkat provides a resolution of 800x600

<old info>
On a 8.04 I had resolution of upto 1024x768... the problem was not there on a Mint 5 Elyssa. However the display would crash when switched to 640x480 on the Mint 5 Elyssa (which is build on Ubuntu 8.04)
</old info>

My monitor is a Samsung Samtron 56V model and graphics card is intel 845GVSR...

<old info>
Why is this? openSUSE 11.0 or Knoppix 5.8 had not problems with resolution.
</old info>

Looks like an upstream bug, since all major distributions are having problems with my graphics card.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the issue is rather an xorg one

[Rahul Ghose (rahulg)]

My problem is solved after a fresh installation of Ubuntu 8.04 (with the old Xorg-server)...

I did one thing differently... I booted the Live CD previously in Safe-Graphics mode... but not the second time.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Hi hansum-rahul,

Please attach the output of `lspci -vvnn`, and attach your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file from after reproducing this issue. If you've made any customizations to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf please attach that as well.

[Rahul Ghose (rahulg)]

00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface [8086:2560] (rev 01)
 Subsystem: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface [8086:2560]
 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Latency: 0
 Region 0: Memory at fc000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
 Capabilities: [e4] Vendor Specific Information <?>
 Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel
 Kernel modules: intel-agp

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device [8086:2562] (rev 01)
 Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:5641]
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Latency: 0
 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
 Region 0: Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
 Region 1: Memory at ffa80000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
 Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 1
  Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
  Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
 Kernel modules: intelfb

00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:24c2] (rev 01)
 Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:5641]
 Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Latency: 0
 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
 Region 4: I/O ports at e800 [size=32]
 Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
 Kernel modules: uhci-hcd

00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:24c4] (rev 01)
 Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:5641]
 Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Latency: 0
 Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 19
 Region 4: I/O ports at e880 [size=32]
 Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
 Kernel modules: uhci-hcd

00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:24c7] (rev 01)
 Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:5641]
 Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Latency: 0
 Interrupt: pin C routed to IRQ 18
 Region 4: I/O ports at ec00 [size=32]
 Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
 Kernel modules: uhci-hcd

00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:24cd] (rev 01) (prog-if 20)
 Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:5641]
 Control: I/O- Mem+ ...

[Rahul Ghose (rahulg)]

I managed to reproduce the issue after upgrading from 8.04 -> 8.10

I have installed intel drivers, i810 but the problems still persists... I don't get 1152x864!

[Rahul Ghose (rahulg)]

I also have the latest xorg! Please help!

[Rahul Ghose (rahulg)]

Aww-right my xrandr and ddcprobe outputs don't match!
This is Xrandr:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 768, maximum 1024 x 1024
VGA connected 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 267mm x 200mm
   800x600 85.1 + 85.0 85.1 72.2 75.0 60.3 56.2
   1024x768 60.0* 60.0
   832x624 74.6
   640x480 85.0 85.0 75.0 72.8 75.0 60.0 59.9
   720x400 85.0 70.1
   640x400 85.1
   640x350 85.1
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
and sudo ddcprobe crashes my computer if I run it a second time... so as of now I am not doing it. But ddcprobe correctly detects 1152x864 resolution.

[Charles Neubauer (gemellus2)]

I have the exact same problem (maximum resolution being 1024x768 not 1152x864) on Ubuntu 8.10, monitor SAMTRON 56V 15", Intel 865G on-board graphics. Moreover, System->Preferences->Screen Resolution dubs my monitor 'SAMSUNG 14"', not SAMTRON 56V 15". It also doesn't make any resolution > 1024x864 available, while I was using 1152x864 in MS Windows before I switched. Please resolve this problem as 1152x864 is the only resolution that enables me to use 100dpi resolution.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

It's actually the default behaviour to not use the maximum resolution, because the refresh rate is usually lower than desired..

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

[This is an automated message]

Hi hansum-rahul,

Please attach the output of `lspci -vvnn` too.

[Rahul Ghose (rahulg)]

Well... after another fresh install of 8.04.1 LTS I am not upgrading xorg... I am paranoid now...
Still here's my lspci -vvnn:---------

But I do face issues now and then when playing games... the display moves in circles or just blanks out completely... I have to do a warm boot to resolve it... and do a fix XSERVER to get back my resolution...

00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface [8086:2560] (rev 01)
 Subsystem: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface [8086:2560]
 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR-
 Latency: 0
 Region 0: Memory at fc000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
 Capabilities: [e4] Vendor Specific Information

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device [8086:2562] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
 Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device [8086:5641]
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
 Latency: 0
 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
 Region 0: Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
 Region 1: Memory at ffa80000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
 Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 1
  Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
  Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:24c2] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
 Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device [8086:5641]
 Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
 Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
 Latency: 0
 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
 Region 4: I/O ports at e800 [size=32]

00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:24c4] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
 Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device [8086:5641]
 Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
 Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
 Latency: 0
 Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 17
 Region 4: I/O ports at e880 [size=32]

00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:24c7] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
 Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device [8086:5641]
 Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
 Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
 Latency: 0
 Interrupt: pin C routed to IRQ 18
 Region 4: I/O ports at ec00 [size=32]

00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH...

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

[This is an automatic notification.]

A new major version of the -intel driver is now available in Karmic.

This version includes a major reworking of the acceleration
architecture, which resolves a huge number of issues. We do not know
whether it resolves the issue you reported.

Would you mind testing Karmic Alpha-2 and seeing if it is still a
problem? CD ISO images are available here:

  http://cdimages.ubuntu.com/releases/karmic/

If the issue can still be reproduced on karmic, please report here with
your findings, and attach a fresh Xorg.0.log from your test, and we will
be able to forward the bug upstream.

Otherwise, if the bug no longer exists in Karmic, let us know that as
well.

In the off chance you encounter different bugs while attempting to test
Karmic, please report those as new bug reports.

[DajomU (dmuren)]

This is also a problem in karmic Alpha 3. I can boot the live-cd but I get no visual, only a dark screen. I can hear the welcome sound when booting into gnome, but screen is completely dark.
I have the same intel graphic card as in post 4 above.

[Rahul Ghose (rahulg)]

Um... sorry I could have a karmik yet. I am trying for one. But can confirm that due to the UXA acceleration mode (on a Fedora 11 and a Mandriva 2009 Spring) I am having display reported incorrectly and crashes.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

DajomU, a lot of these kind of problems seem very similar and have the same symptoms but are actually different unrelated bugs. It would be best if you reported your issue in a separate report so we can focus this report on Rahul's issue; see http://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Reporting.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

We're closing this bug since it is has been some time with no response from the original reporter. However, if the issue still exists please feel free to reopen with the requested information. Also, if you could, please test against the latest development version of Ubuntu, since this confirms the bug is one we may be able to pass upstream for help.

[Dhinakar (dhinakar-1989)]

I too have same problem in ubunto 9.04

[Dhinakar (dhinakar-1989)]

I can keep 1024*768 only not the highest resolution (1152x864) which I can be kept in windows xp..........
What to do? plzz help

[Dhinakar (dhinakar-1989)]

I am also having samsang samtron 56v monitor

[DajomU (dmuren)]

I tried with the 9.10 alpha 5, but still no good. A normal boot was not possible, but when I disabled kernel mode setting by adding the boot parameter i915.modeset=0 to the kernel boot options I was able to boot into GUI and use it for a while. If finally froze everything, except from mouse-cursor. One step further, but still not good. Maybe next alpha!?

[Rahul Ghose (rahulg)]

I'm sorry for my prolonged absence, but I downloaded the latest Karmic Koala and expect to provide a report within tomorrow. I believe this to be a problem for ALL latest linux distros.

Hope you please re-open this bug and spare a bit of your time.

[Rahul Ghose (rahulg)]

The bugs exists in Karmik too...

Here are the relevant files

[Rahul Ghose (rahulg)]

lspci -nn | grep VGA
----------------------------------->

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated
Graphics Device [8086:2562] (rev 01)

<-----------------------------------

xrandr --verbose
------------------------------------->

Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 768, maximum 2048 x 2048
VGA1 connected 1024x768+0+0 (0x3c) normal (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 267mm x 200mm
 Identifier: 0x3a
 Timestamp: 322277
 Subpixel: unknown
 Clones:
 CRTC: 0
 CRTCs: 0
 Transform: 1.000000 0.000000 0.000000
             0.000000 1.000000 0.000000
             0.000000 0.000000 1.000000
            filter:
 EDID_DATA:
  00ffffffffffff004e8e020035314e41
  100e0103681c157e2bfb89a1554b9724
  11484ca4000031403159455961407140
  010101010101f91520f830581f202040
  13000bc81000001e000000fd0032781e
  3708000a202020202020000000fc0053
  414d54524f4e0a2020202020000000ff
  00484841583432393737330a2020006a
  800x600 (0x3b) 56.2MHz +HSync +VSync +preferred
        h: width 800 start 832 end 896 total 1048 skew 0 clock 53.7KHz
        v: height 600 start 601 end 604 total 631 clock 85.1Hz
  1024x768 (0x3c) 65.0MHz -HSync -VSync *current
        h: width 1024 start 1048 end 1184 total 1344 skew 0 clock 48.4KHz
        v: height 768 start 771 end 777 total 806 clock 60.0Hz
  832x624 (0x3d) 57.3MHz -HSync -VSync
        h: width 832 start 864 end 928 total 1152 skew 0 clock 49.7KHz
        v: height 624 start 625 end 628 total 667 clock 74.6Hz
  800x600 (0x3e) 56.3MHz +HSync +VSync
        h: width 800 start 832 end 896 total 1048 skew 0 clock 53.7KHz
        v: height 600 start 601 end 604 total 631 clock 85.1Hz
  800x600 (0x3f) 50.0MHz +HSync +VSync
        h: width 800 start 856 end 976 total 1040 skew 0 clock 48.1KHz
        v: height 600 start 637 end 643 total 666 clock 72.2Hz
  800x600 (0x40) 49.5MHz +HSync +VSync
        h: width 800 start 816 end 896 total 1056 skew 0 clock 46.9KHz
        v: height 600 start 601 end 604 total 625 clock 75.0Hz
  800x600 (0x41) 40.0MHz +HSync +VSync
        h: width 800 start 840 end 968 total 1056 skew 0 clock 37.9KHz
        v: height 600 start 601 end 605 total 628 clock 60.3Hz
  800x600 (0x42) 36.0MHz +HSync +VSync
        h: width 800 start 824 end 896 total 1024 skew 0 clock 35.2KHz
        v: height 600 start 601 end 603 total 625 clock 56.2Hz
  640x480 (0x43) 36.0MHz -HSync -VSync
        h: width 640 start 696 end 752 total 832 skew 0 clock 43.3KHz
        v: height 480 start 481 end 484 total 509 clock 85.0Hz
  640x480 (0x44) 31.5MHz -HSync -VSync
        h: width 640 start 656 end 720 total 840 skew 0 clock 37.5KHz
        v: height 480 start 481 end 484 total 500 clock 75.0Hz
  640x480 (0x45) 31.5MHz -HSync -VSync
        h: width 640 start 664 end 704 total 832 skew 0 clock 37.9KHz
        v: height 480 start 489 end 492 total 520 ...

[Rahul Ghose (rahulg)]

My OS:

Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10
2.6.31-14-generic

[Timothy G. Rundle (tgrundle)]

I installed the latest kernel (2.6.32-999) [1] along with the latest Xorg stuff from the XOrger's PPA [2] and the 1152x864 option is now listed. I did try just the updates from the XOrgers PPA with the current kernel in karmic (2.6.31-16), but that didn't fix it. I haven't rolled back the XOrgers PPA updates to see if just the latest kernel fixes the issue.

lspci -nn | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device [8086:2562] (rev 01)

[1] http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/
[2] http://ppa.launchpad.net/xorg-edgers/ppa/ubuntu

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

Rahul,
     As you may be aware, modesetting has been moved into the kernel. As such I'd appreciate a test of this issue against the latest Lucid build in addition to testing against the latest vanilla mainline kernel build.

I'll be adding a kernel task to this bug and marking the xorg task as invalid.

Thanks!

-JFo

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[Rahul Ghose (rahulg)]

The issue has gotten worse in Maveric Meerkat on 2.6.35-24 kernel.

I have attached my dmesg output, lspci and xrandr --verbose outputs...

[Rahul Ghose (rahulg)]

I get resolution : 800x600 as the only option

[Rahul Ghose (rahulg)]

dmesg Kernel log now...

[Rahul Ghose (rahulg)]

Some more info: (lspci -vvnn as root)

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device [8086:2562] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:5641]
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 0
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
        Region 0: Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
        Region 1: Memory at ffa80000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
        Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
        Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 1
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
        Kernel driver in use: i915
        Kernel modules: i915

[Rahul Ghose (rahulg)]

Okey... so ddcprobe can access and list my correct resolutions... Any workarounds ?

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Rahul Ghose, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better. Maverick reached EOL on April 2012.
Please see this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

We were wondering if this is still an issue in a supported release? If so, can you try with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/ .

If it remains an issue, could you run the following command in a supported release from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report.

apport-collect -p linux <replace-with-bug-number>

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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