[i865] Offers video resultions not actually supported on Lucid Intel 865G

[Scott Kitterman]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-intel

This is on Kubuntu Lucid. Offered display resolutions:

2048 X 1536 - Works
1920 X 1440 - Works
1856 X 1392 - Works
1792 X 1344 - Works
1920 X 1200 - Works
1600 X 1200 - Works
1680 X 1050 - Works
1600 X 1024 - Doesn't work - very faint with uneven brightness and color
1400 X 1050 - Works
1280 X 1024 - Works
1440 X 900 - Works
1280 X 960 - Works
1360 X 768 - Works
1280 X 800 - Works
1152 X 864 - Works
1280 X 768 - Works
1024 X 768 - Doesn't work - only faint flashes
832 X 624 - Works
800 X 600 - Works
There are a number of even smaller options I didn't test.
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Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
DkmsStatus: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
GdmLog:
 Error: command ['kdesudo', '--', 'cat', '/var/log/gdm/:0.log'] failed with exit code 1: QInotifyFileSystemWatcherEngine::addPaths: inotify_add_watch failed: No such file or directory
 QFileSystemWatcher: failed to add paths: /home/kitterma/.config/ibus/bus
 Bus::open: Can not get ibus-daemon's address.
 IBusInputContext::createInputContext: no connection to ibus-daemon
 cat: /var/log/gdm/:0.log: No such file or directory
GdmLog1: Error: command ['kdesudo', '--', 'cat', '/var/log/gdm/:0.log.1'] failed with exit code 1: cat: /var/log/gdm/:0.log.1: No such file or directory
GdmLog2: Error: command ['kdesudo', '--', 'cat', '/var/log/gdm/:0.log.2'] failed with exit code 1: cat: /var/log/gdm/:0.log.2: No such file or directory
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.9.1-3ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-19-generic root=UUID=4321476c-103e-4a53-bbf5-3c2f4243d0b2 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-19.28-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
Tags: lucid lucid
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-19-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
dmi.bios.date: 03/07/2005
dmi.bios.vendor: Intel Corp.
dmi.bios.version: BF86510A.86A.0075.P24.0503071605
dmi.board.name: D865GBF
dmi.board.vendor: Intel Corporation
dmi.board.version: AAC25843-402
dmi.chassis.type: 2
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnIntelCorp.:bvrBF86510A.86A.0075.P24.0503071605:bd03/07/2005:svn:pn:pvr:rvnIntelCorporation:rnD865GBF:rvrAAC25843-402:cvn:ct2:cvr:
glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 codename: lucid
 architecture: i686
 kernel: 2.6.32-19-generic

[lspci]
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2572] (rev 02)
     Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:4246]

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Hi Scott,

Please run the command 'apport-collect BUGNUMBER', which will attach several files we need for debugging.

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[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

setting this as confirmed since the requested info was added by the reporter.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Confirmed this is still a problem on maverick, even with the mesa update from sarvatt/mesa PPA.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

While i865 is supported on Lucid still, it's not on newer versions of Ubuntu, and so we're not going to be backporting patches for it (except in extraordinarily rare situations where there is a "perfect patch".) We've found that 8xx is fairly fragile and so a patch that fixes an issue on one 8xx card can have a high risk of breaking some other slight variant of the same card.