[Bug 445320] New: [sax2] i845G not found
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320 Summary: [sax2] i845G not found Product: openSUSE 11.1 Version: Factory Platform: x86 OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: SaX2 AssignedTo: sndirsch@novell.com ReportedBy: mrmazda@ij.net QAContact: sax2-maintainer-bugs@forge.provo.novell.com Found By: --- Created an attachment (id=252405) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=252405) SaX.log & output from hwinfo --gfxcard & sax2 -p Trying to start X using xorg.conf that worked prior to bug 427978 does not work since that bug appeared 8 weeks ago. Dell GX260 system is at 11.1 beta 5.1 with xorg-x11-driver-video-7.4-16.2. To reproduce: run sax2 Actual behavior: 1-Only VESA is offered/selected 2-X limited to 8bpp 1024x768 Expected behavior: 1-i845G is automatically selected 2-All chip supported resolutions and bpp selectable (at least 1920x1440@24bpp) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320 User sndirsch@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320#c1 Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- URL| |https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=182 | |70 Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |UPSTREAM --- Comment #1 from Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@novell.com> 2008-11-14 15:05:51 MST --- Known issue, but I don't believe that you can only select 8bbp modes. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18270 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320 User mhopf@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320#c2 Matthias Hopf <mhopf@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |mhopf@novell.com Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED Resolution|UPSTREAM | --- Comment #2 from Matthias Hopf <mhopf@novell.com> 2008-12-09 04:59:45 MST --- According to upstream the Xserver starts with Option "ExaNoComposite" "true" Sounds like a possible workaround. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320 User lynn@steve-ss.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320#c3 lynn wilson <lynn@steve-ss.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |lynn@steve-ss.com --- Comment #3 from lynn wilson <lynn@steve-ss.com> 2008-12-16 10:52:16 MST --- Suse 11.1 rc1 intel 845 chipset on Dell Optiplex 260. Only framebuffer graphics are available. The Option "ExaNoComposite" "true" doesn't help. sax2 -r -m 0=i810 and sax2 -r -m 0=intel both crash the computer, a hard reboot being needed. xorg.conf from the previous 11.0 installation freezes too. Please could we have it fixed for the release version tomorrow or have some sort of timescale? Thanks. Lynn. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320 User mrmazda@ij.net added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320#c4 --- Comment #4 from Felix Miata <mrmazda@ij.net> 2008-12-16 15:57:58 MST --- Created an attachment (id=260463) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=260463) xorg.conf that works on GX260 on 11.1RC1 I'm submitting this with Firefox on KDE3 on 11.1RC1 on Dell GX260 service tag 9BTLG21 (2.0GHz 400 FSB P4; 2X512M DDR2100). -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320 User lynn@steve-ss.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320#c5 --- Comment #5 from lynn wilson <lynn@steve-ss.com> 2008-12-17 04:06:18 MST --- Hi and thanks. It helps a lot as the xorg.conf file works and it stops the awful framebuffer flicker. Without the accel, windows redraw jerkily and google earth really suffers. Because of this I think the bug should be left as reopened. Cheers, Lynn. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320 User mrmazda@ij.net added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320#c6 Felix Miata <mrmazda@ij.net> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- URL|https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=182|https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=177 |70 |13 --- Comment #6 from Felix Miata <mrmazda@ij.net> 2008-12-17 05:44:14 MST --- Upstream 18270 was duped to 17713 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320 User lverhaegen@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320#c7 --- Comment #7 from Luc Verhaegen <lverhaegen@novell.com> 2008-12-17 05:55:38 MST --- Thanks Felix. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320 User sndirsch@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320#c8 Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|REOPENED |RESOLVED Resolution| |WORKSFORME --- Comment #8 from Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@novell.com> 2008-12-18 02:10:25 MST --- (In reply to comment #4 from Felix Miata)
Created an attachment (id=260463) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=260463) [details] xorg.conf that works on GX260 on 11.1RC1
which disables acceleration completely.
I'm submitting this with Firefox on KDE3 on 11.1RC1 on Dell GX260 service tag 9BTLG21 (2.0GHz 400 FSB P4; 2X512M DDR2100).
That's weird. I also have a Dell GX260 machine and for me it's enough to set option EXANoComposite. Closing as WORKSFORME. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320 User mrmazda@ij.net added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320#c9 Felix Miata <mrmazda@ij.net> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED Resolution|WORKSFORME | --- Comment #9 from Felix Miata <mrmazda@ij.net> 2008-12-18 02:33:46 MST --- How does someone set EXANoComposite before an xorg.conf exists? This bug is about SaX2 not being able to generate xorg.conf using the Intel driver in the first place, and it still does not as of RC1. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320 User sndirsch@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320#c10 Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|REOPENED |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |mrmazda@ij.net --- Comment #10 from Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@novell.com> 2008-12-18 02:39:54 MST --- This would mean that Noaccel wouldn't help either. So what do you expect here. Using vesa driver as default for 845g in general to make you happy? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320 User mrmazda@ij.net added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320#c11 Felix Miata <mrmazda@ij.net> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |REOPENED Info Provider|mrmazda@ij.net | --- Comment #11 from Felix Miata <mrmazda@ij.net> 2008-12-18 02:57:39 MST --- I don't need SaX2 to work properly. I can get working xorg.conf without it. But people like Lynn do need it: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2008-12/msg01118.html If SaX2 can't be fixed so it uses the Intel chip's driver by default, maybe another relnote is needed? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320 User sndirsch@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320#c12 Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|REOPENED |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |lynn@steve-ss.com --- Comment #12 from Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@novell.com> 2008-12-18 03:17:55 MST --- Don't know if using ExaNoComposite for 845G was already active in SaX2 on RC1. Lynn, please retest with final version of 11.1. Available in a few hours. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320 User lynn@steve-ss.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320#c13 lynn wilson <lynn@steve-ss.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |REOPENED Info Provider|lynn@steve-ss.com | --- Comment #13 from lynn wilson <lynn@steve-ss.com> 2008-12-18 04:12:05 MST --- Hi Option "NoAccel" is the only way I can get the intel driver not to crash. What I need is a working xorg.conf. The only way to get an xorg.conf to work is to use the Option "NoAccel" Period. This makes the screen drawing too slow. Could someone post an xorg without NoAccel that works or get sax2 to do it for us? Any method. With or without sax2 would be good at this stage. Thanks. Lynn. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320 User lynn@steve-ss.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320#c14 lynn wilson <lynn@steve-ss.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|REOPENED |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |sndirsch@novell.com --- Comment #14 from lynn wilson <lynn@steve-ss.com> 2008-12-18 04:17:47 MST --- OK will test with final 11.1 this afternoon. Sorry. Didn't see the post. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320 Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Info Provider|sndirsch@novell.com |lynn@steve-ss.com -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320 User mrmazda@ij.net added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320#c15 --- Comment #15 from Felix Miata <mrmazda@ij.net> 2008-12-18 13:00:31 MST --- Created an attachment (id=260997) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=260997) /var/log/SaX.log from initial boot generated by fresh 11.1 installation This apparently extends into installation. I just did a fresh install of 11.1 on the same GX260 with the BIOS framebuffer set to 1MB instead of 8MB. Upon automatic "reboot" after packages finished installing, The screen seems to come up in a 2bpp or 4bpp mode initally, making the text unintelligible. After a short time, the screen goes black, and attempting to change to a VC via Ctrl-Alt-Fx completely fails, leaving me to think that at this point is when YaST2 has handed off to SaX2. I suspect that with BIOS set to 8MB framebuffer instead of 1MB this might not happen. I don't know if there's a way to test without another complete fresh install. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320 User mrmazda@ij.net added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320#c16 --- Comment #16 from Felix Miata <mrmazda@ij.net> 2008-12-18 13:00:37 MST --- Created an attachment (id=260998) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=260998) /var/log/Xorg.99.log from initial boot generated by fresh 11.1 installation -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320 User mrmazda@ij.net added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320#c17 --- Comment #17 from Felix Miata <mrmazda@ij.net> 2008-12-18 13:00:41 MST --- Created an attachment (id=260999) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=260999) /var/log/Xorg.0.log from initial boot generated by fresh 11.1 installation -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320 User mrmazda@ij.net added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320#c18 --- Comment #18 from Felix Miata <mrmazda@ij.net> 2008-12-18 13:00:45 MST --- Created an attachment (id=261000) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=261000) xorg.conf from initial boot generated by fresh 11.1 installation -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320 User mrmazda@ij.net added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320#c19 --- Comment #19 from Felix Miata <mrmazda@ij.net> 2008-12-18 13:35:26 MST --- I switched the BIOS back to 8MB framebuffer. 1MB had been making the Grub gfxmenu display wrongly since it was set some weeks ago. startx using attachment 261000 locks up the machine. Adding 'Option "NoAccel"' makes X work. Commenting 'Option "EXANoComposite"' makes no apparent difference. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320 User sndirsch@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320#c20 --- Comment #20 from Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@novell.com> 2008-12-18 13:54:46 MST --- So SaX2 is generating xorg.conf as expected with 'Option "EXANoComposite"' enabled. Don't know why you need "noaccel" on your Dell GX260. My GX260 doesn't need it and I really don't want to make it the default. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320 User mrmazda@ij.net added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320#c21 --- Comment #21 from Felix Miata <mrmazda@ij.net> 2008-12-18 15:05:28 MST --- I have a PCI Intel NIC in my GX260. Anyone else have any PCI cards installed? I have 1G RAM. How much are others using? Could DM have any bearing? I use only KDE, 3 in my factory boxes, but 4 in this fresh install. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320 User lynn@steve-ss.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320#c22 lynn wilson <lynn@steve-ss.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |REOPENED Info Provider|lynn@steve-ss.com | --- Comment #22 from lynn wilson <lynn@steve-ss.com> 2008-12-19 02:03:19 MST --- Optiplex GX 260 installation of new 11.1 freezes at the X detection stage. THe installation goes no further. Worse than the rc. Oh dear. What can I do to help get this fixed? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320 User sndirsch@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320#c23 Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|REOPENED |RESOLVED Resolution| |WORKSFORME --- Comment #23 from Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@novell.com> 2008-12-19 02:14:05 MST --- Sorry guys, I need to give up on this one. Using "noaccel" or "vesa" driver as default is really not an option here for two affected users of Optiplex GX260 machines, while mine is working fine with "EXANoComposite". But feel free to discuss things in the upstream bugreport. Thanks. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320 User mrmazda@ij.net added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320#c24 --- Comment #24 from Felix Miata <mrmazda@ij.net> 2008-12-19 02:16:46 MST --- Lynn, that's what comment 15 is about. Did you check your BIOS video framebuffer size setting? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320 User lynn@steve-ss.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320#c25 lynn wilson <lynn@steve-ss.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED Resolution|WORKSFORME | --- Comment #25 from lynn wilson <lynn@steve-ss.com> 2008-12-19 02:21:50 MST --- Where do I go to follow the upstream? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320 User mrmazda@ij.net added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320#c26 --- Comment #26 from Felix Miata <mrmazda@ij.net> 2008-12-19 02:23:40 MST --- Lynn, that's what comment 15 is about. Did you check your BIOS video framebuffer size setting? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320 User mrmazda@ij.net added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320#c27 --- Comment #27 from Felix Miata <mrmazda@ij.net> 2008-12-19 02:25:13 MST --- Stefan, this bug is about SaX2 - where is upstream for that? http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2008-12/msg01118.html indicates Lynn is 20 users, and I have 3 more GX260 I could pull Radeon cards out of to try if need be. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320 User lynn@steve-ss.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320#c28 --- Comment #28 from lynn wilson <lynn@steve-ss.com> 2008-12-19 02:29:04 MST --- The framebuffer set to 8Mb during the crashed install. Am now trying with 1Mb. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320 User lynn@steve-ss.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320#c29 --- Comment #29 from lynn wilson <lynn@steve-ss.com> 2008-12-19 02:30:20 MST --- Can confirm 20 client lan: optiplex GX260 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320 User sndirsch@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320#c30 Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|REOPENED |RESOLVED Resolution| |UPSTREAM --- Comment #30 from Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@novell.com> 2008-12-19 02:48:06 MST --- (In reply to comment #25 from lynn wilson)
Where do I go to follow the upstream?
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17713 (URL field in Bugzilla) (In reply to comment #27 from Felix Miata)
Stefan, this bug is about SaX2 - where is upstream for that?
There is no bug in SaX2 for this. You confirmed that SaX2 wrote EXANoComposite as expected. The remaining issue is that this option doesn't help on your hardware, but that's not SaX2 related.
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2008-12/msg01118.html indicates Lynn is 20 users,
Not at all. Sounds more like 20 identical machines. And he's talking about screen flicker. Is this with fbdev, vesa or intel with EXANoComposite. I don't know.
and I have 3 more GX260 I could pull Radeon cards out of to try if need be.
Have you ever considered to send one of these machines to Intel's upstream developers? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320 User lynn@steve-ss.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320#c31 lynn wilson <lynn@steve-ss.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Resolution|UPSTREAM |INVALID --- Comment #31 from lynn wilson <lynn@steve-ss.com> 2008-12-19 03:48:41 MST --- The bug is worse in the released 11.1 than it was in the rc. It causes the installation to freeze. It is not possible to install 11.1 with X on an optiplex gx260 using the opensuse installation (which uses sax2 for X setup doesn't it?). Does anyone have a workaround at least? THanks. L. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320 User mrmazda@ij.net added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320#c32 --- Comment #32 from Felix Miata <mrmazda@ij.net> 2008-12-19 04:07:24 MST --- Lynn, the freeze happens after the installation is complete other than various configurations, so you can fix xorg.conf manually by booting to runlevel 1, 2 or 3 instead of 5 (X). -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320 User mrmazda@ij.net added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320#c33 Felix Miata <mrmazda@ij.net> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- URL|https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=177|https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=185 |13 |55 Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED Resolution|INVALID | --- Comment #33 from Felix Miata <mrmazda@ij.net> 2008-12-19 09:11:24 MST --- The 9BTLG21 GX260 I've been testing on is: BIOS A09 (latest available last I checked) CPUID F27 SPEED 2.0GHz BUS 400 RAM 2X512M DDR266 I pulled the Radeon from the BP3YJ21 GX260, which then spec'd as: BIOS A03 CPUID F27 SPEED 2.53GHz BUS 533 RAM 2X512M DDR266 I have to say the two do not qualify as identical machines, though their SaX2 behavior is equally bad. (In reply to comment #30 from Stefan Dirsch)
There is no bug in SaX2 for this. You confirmed that SaX2 wrote EXANoComposite as expected. The remaining issue is that this option doesn't help on your hardware, but that's not SaX2 related.
Besides the two non-identical GX260s, I also tested on Intel's own http://www.intel.com/design/motherbd/va/index.htm using a 2.4GHz Celeron and 2x256M RAM. EXANoComposite helps on none of the 3 845Gs I tested on.
Sounds more like 20 identical machines.
I think between Lynn & me there are at least 3 non-identicals.
And he's talking about screen flicker. Is this with fbdev, vesa or intel with EXANoComposite. I don't know.
I think Lynn's flicker happens with VESA.
Have you ever considered to send one of these machines to Intel's upstream developers?
ISTR some mention of that someone else might do that not so long ago, but as this can be reproduced on Intel's own motherboard I don't think that should be necessary. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18555 looks like a more appropriate upstream. That suggests maybe to substitute 'Option "AccelMethod" "XAA"' for 'Option "EXANoComposite"' to fix the bug. I already put the Radeon back in GX260 BP3YJ21, but XAA worksforme in the other two boxes. On the Celeron the Youtube video performance is awful, about the same as with NoAccel. On the P4 performance seems good enough for such an antique. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320 User sndirsch@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320#c34 Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|REOPENED |RESOLVED Resolution| |UPSTREAM --- Comment #34 from Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@novell.com> 2008-12-19 10:46:57 MST --- Why don't you provide this information upstream. What can we do here. I already mentioned that we can't make noaccel the default and XAA is no longer supported by Intel. I didn't close this bug as INVALID. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320 User mrmazda@ij.net added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320#c35 --- Comment #35 from Felix Miata <mrmazda@ij.net> 2008-12-19 11:17:17 MST --- (In reply to comment #34 from Stefan Dirsch)
Why don't you provide this information upstream.
I referred in upstream 18555 to this.
What can we do here.
SaX2 & the installer need to bow out politely, as long as they can't get it right, rather than locking the system up. And relnote.
I already mentioned that we can't make noaccel the default and XAA is no longer supported by Intel.
Until upstream is fixed, why can't NoAccel be default for one chipset? Is there more than one 845G system that EXANoComposite without NoAccel actually works on?
I didn't close this bug as INVALID.
Lynn did, by accident I'm guessing. It needs to stay open pending better behavior than just locking the system up. Upstream is not fixed, so nothing is really resolved. I don't understand why on Novell Bugzilla open upstreams aren't marked as open deps rather than resolved. FWIW to upstream readers here, current 11.1 driver version is 1.5.2. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320 User sndirsch@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320#c36 --- Comment #36 from Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@novell.com> 2008-12-19 11:38:21 MST --- EXANoComposite works on 2 different 845G machines for me. On FSC and one GX260. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320 User lynn@steve-ss.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320#c37 --- Comment #37 from lynn wilson <lynn@steve-ss.com> 2008-12-19 15:05:10 MST --- <thanks> Felix: Thanks for the info msg#32. Before you told me I did a text only install so I could boot and login as root then put X in afterwards. Duh! I've now got 3 very slow but working 11.1 installations. </thanks> OK After 11.1 installs on 3 separate Dell GX260's, the only way I can get the intel driver to work is using Option "NoAccel" That slows the screen down so as to be unacceptable. Would it be acceptable netiquette to open another bugzilla asking for a work around for not having to use NoAccel (which cripples the graphics)? L x -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320 User mrmazda@ij.net added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320#c38 --- Comment #38 from Felix Miata <mrmazda@ij.net> 2008-12-19 16:18:14 MST --- (In reply to comment #37 from lynn wilson)
Would it be acceptable netiquette to open another bugzilla asking for a work around for not having to use NoAccel (which cripples the graphics)?
I don't think it would be helpful to file anything more here. Intel drivers are wholly upstream dependent. Upstream fixes automatically get taken here, so the best thing is probably to help and/or pressure upstream. There are a lot already open there: http://tinyurl.com/3w66yf -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320 User sndirsch@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320#c39 Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED Resolution|UPSTREAM | --- Comment #39 from Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@novell.com> 2009-01-02 09:48:43 MST --- reopen. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320 User sndirsch@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445320#c40 Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|REOPENED |RESOLVED Resolution| |DUPLICATE --- Comment #40 from Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@novell.com> 2009-01-02 09:49:00 MST --- *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 463288 *** https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=463288 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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