i810 graphics woes ..

Son|c · **Posted:** Wed Mar 14, 2007 10:25 am

Hi,

I finally found time to investigate the problem I have with my laptop since I tried to upgrade to 4.4.
It's a many years old samsung v20 with i810 (82845G) integrated chipset on which I never had any problem with ZW since 2.6.

On my first tests with 4.4 (Xorg 7.1) I experienced some crashes when X started : boot to init 3 ok, startx and then nothing but a blank screen and my pc was down (not pingable from another box ...). I've tried to invetigate but was not able to get any log (Xorg.0.log was desperately empty ...).

After an upgrade to Xorg 7.2, I'm now able to see logs as X does not crash my box anymore. Instead it just does not load and stops with :

Code:

(EE) I810(0): unknown type(0xffffffff)=0xff
(EE) I810(0): VBE initialization failed.
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

In my Xorg.0.log I also have :

Code:

...
(II) Loading sub module "int10"
(II) LoadModule: "int10"
(II) Reloading /usr/lib/X11/modules//libint10.so
(II) I810(0): initializing int10
(WW) I810(0): Bad V_BIOS checksum
(II) I810(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000
(EE) I810(0): unknown type(0xffffffff)=0xff
(II) I810(0): EAX=0x00004f00, EBX=0x00000000, ECX=0x00000000, EDX=0x00000000
(II) I810(0): ESP=0x00000ffa, EBP=0x00000000, ESI=0x00000000, EDI=0x00002000
(II) I810(0): CS=0xc000, SS=0x0100, DS=0x0040, ES=0x0000, FS=0x0000, GS=0x0000
(II) I810(0): EIP=0x00000014, EFLAGS=0x00003200
(II) I810(0): code at 0x000c0014:
 e9 41 15 2c 40 00 20 0d 30 30 49 42 4d 20 56 47
 41 20 43 6f 6d 70 61 74 69 62 6c 65 20 42 49 4f
(II) stack at 0x00001ffa:
 00 06 00 00 00 32
(II) I810(0): VESA BIOS not detected
(EE) I810(0): VBE initialization failed.
(II) UnloadModule: "i810"
(II) UnloadModule: "int10"
(II) UnloadModule: "vgahw"
(II) Unloading /usr/lib/X11/modules//libvgahw.so
(II) UnloadModule: "vbe"
(II) Unloading /usr/lib/X11/modules//libvbe.so
(II) UnloadModule: "int10"
(II) Unloading /usr/lib/X11/modules//libint10.so
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

Fatal server error:
no screens found

As per some solutions on Google, I tried 1 or 2 things to get rid of this but to no avail, including recompiling the kernel with VM86 support (http://therowes.net/~greg/2006/10/16/ah ... my-sd11g5/ or http://abhidg.wordpress.com/2007/01/25/i915-problems/).

So I'm stuck with my laptop not being able to boot to my desktop ...

Thanks for your help.

Emmanuel

ladi · **Joined:** Thu Apr 20, 2006 1:49 pm **Posts:** 111

I think your problem is in xorg.conf. You didn't say how much graphics memory you have, but maybe the DefaultDepth is too high for your card? I would drop it to 16, then try 24 if that works. Also, you may need to look at the resolutions you are trying to run at.

Son|c · **Posted:** Wed Mar 14, 2007 6:30 pm

Hi,

Thx for your reply but I doubt it ...
I've been using the same conf since ZW 2.6 with no prob. And I always use DefaultDepth 16, 1024x768 res.
Everything was working that way til early pkgs of Xorg 7.1.1 (as of ZW 4.2).

Emmanuel

fredg · **Posted:** Wed Mar 14, 2007 7:19 pm

I'm happy to see that someone got the same f****** problem as me.
;D

More seriously, mine has appeared with the kernel 2.6.20.2, all was right before, and downgraded the kernel solved my trouble.
My graphic chipset is Intel 950 GMA.

I did it twice to be sure that it is kernel related:
fresh install > upgrade to snapshot without the kernel [ok] > upgrade the kernel

The system is ok, but X can't be run

My bus ID card is : PCI 00:02:00
Found by videoconfig, xorg is well setup.
But, take a look:

Code:

(II) I810: Driver for Intel Integrated Graphics Chipsets: i810, i810-dc100,
   i810e, i815, i830M, 845G, 852GM/855GM, 865G, 915G, E7221 (i915),
   915GM, 945G, 945GM, 965G, 965G, 965Q, 946GZ
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 00:02:0
(WW) I810: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0:2:1) found
(--) Chipset 945GM found
(II) resource ranges after xf86ClaimFixedResources() call:
   [0] -1   0   0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B)
   [1] -1   0   0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B]
   [2] -1   0   0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B]
       .
       .
       .
   [34] 0   0   0x000003c0 - 0x000003df (0x20) IS[B]
(II) Setting vga for screen 0.
(II) Loading sub module "int10"
(II) LoadModule: "int10"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/X11/modules//libint10.so
(II) Module int10: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
   compiled for 7.2.0, module version = 1.0.0
   ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 1.1
(II) Loading sub module "vbe"
(II) LoadModule: "vbe"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/X11/modules//libvbe.so
(II) Module vbe: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
   compiled for 7.2.0, module version = 1.1.0
   ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 1.1
(II) Loading sub module "vgahw"
(II) LoadModule: "vgahw"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/X11/modules//libvgahw.so
(II) Module vgahw: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
   compiled for 7.2.0, module version = 0.1.0
   ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 1.1
(**) I810(0): Depth 16, (--) framebuffer bpp 16
(==) I810(0): RGB weight 565
(==) I810(0): Default visual is TrueColor
(II) Loading sub module "int10"
(II) LoadModule: "int10"
(II) Reloading /usr/lib/X11/modules//libint10.so
(II) I810(0): initializing int10
(WW) I810(0): Bad V_BIOS checksum
(II) I810(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000
(EE) I810(0): unknown type(0xffffffff)=0xff
(II) I810(0): EAX=0x00004f00, EBX=0x00000000, ECX=0x00000000, EDX=0x00000000
(II) I810(0): ESP=0x00000ffa, EBP=0x00000000, ESI=0x00000000, EDI=0x00002000
(II) I810(0): CS=0xc000, SS=0x0100, DS=0x0040, ES=0x0000, FS=0x0000, GS=0x0000
(II) I810(0): EIP=0x00000014, EFLAGS=0x00003200
(II) I810(0): code at 0x000c0014:
 e9 2d 20 d9 40 00 e0 0a 30 30 49 42 4d 20 56 47
 41 20 43 6f 6d 70 61 74 69 62 6c 65 20 42 49 4f
(II) stack at 0x00001ffa:
 00 06 00 00 00 32
(II) I810(0): VESA BIOS not detected
(EE) I810(0): VBE initialization failed.
(II) UnloadModule: "i810"
(II) UnloadModule: "int10"
(II) UnloadModule: "vgahw"
(II) Unloading /usr/lib/X11/modules//libvgahw.so
(II) UnloadModule: "vbe"
(II) Unloading /usr/lib/X11/modules//libvbe.so
(II) UnloadModule: "int10"
(II) Unloading /usr/lib/X11/modules//libint10.so
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

Fatal server error:
no screens found

I didn't find something interesting to solve it for now.

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fredg · **Posted:** Wed Mar 14, 2007 9:25 pm

Your links were interesting, and all I have found make me make a request to JP

:
http://support.zenwalk.org/index.php/topic,6952.0.html

But you said that you have troubles before the kernel 2.6.20.2, so, do like me, try to find the difference between the 2 kernel config file (the 2.6 ISO is always on the repo

).

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Son|c · **Posted:** Wed Mar 14, 2007 11:11 pm

Good not to be alone isn't it ?

But did the recompilation of the kernel with VM86 option on solve your prob ? For me it did not ....

Emmanuel

fredg · **Posted:** Thu Mar 15, 2007 7:28 pm

Quote:

Good not to be alone isn't it ?

Yes, indeed

, and i hope that you will find what's wrong too.

Quote:

But did the recompilation of the kernel with VM86 option on solve your prob ?

Yes, it did.
http://support.zenwalk.org/index.php/to ... l#msg41747

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StrangeQuark · **Joined:** Fri Apr 13, 2007 9:29 pm **Posts:** 8

Son|c: Have you seen this: http://wiki.zenwalk.org/index.php/82845 ... ics_Device ?
That took care of the problem for me.

I must say, now that I've finally gotten this to work, I'm really impressed by Zenwalk.

rametux · **Joined:** Sun Apr 13, 2008 12:10 pm **Posts:** 1

Does anybody can confirm what version of zenwalk that used on this wiki page http://wiki.zenwalk.org/index.php/82845 ... ics_Device ? Because i use the newest version (6.0) but it doesn't work. I still can't make my X up and running. Is it the video driver or kernel problem? Should i recompile my kernel?

Help would be appreciate. Thanks.

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