When I ran locate to find the intel.ko driver there was no output whatsoever. I ran it as root and after entering 'locate intel.ko' I was taken back to the command prompt. I have never used locate before but was expecting either the path to the file or a file not found message. Is this normal behavior for locate? Locate is installed on my machine at /usr/bin/locate. Yast2 shows the video driver package with the intel driver is installed. The man page for the Intel driver is installed and can be read. How else can I determine if the intel driver is installed properly? I did a network install on this machine. Is it possible the video driver package was corrupted? Anyway, here are the requested files. I included the xorg.conf file located in the /temp directory as that is the one sax2 used to configure the xserver. The files are very large so I will attempt to attach them, hopefully the mailing list will allow this. Thanks again, Dave ----- Original Message ----

From: David C. Rankin To: suse Sent: Saturday, February 7, 2009 11:19:16 PM Subject: Re: [opensuse] 11.1 Intel Graphic Problem on Dell Notebook

Masaru Nomiya wrote:

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Please show your xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log.

Dave,

Also, if your Driver line in xorg.conf is loading the "intel" driver, please confirm that module is present on your system with "locate intel.ko" like:

22:16 alchemy:~> locate radeon.ko /lib/modules/2.6.25.20-0.1-default/kernel/drivers/char/drm/radeon.ko

If locate isn't installed on your box, then do:

zypper in locate

I consider it a must-have utility for troubleshooting.

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Dave wrote:

I sat down and read the man pages for locate and realized I first needed to run updatedb. After running updatedb it clearly shows I do not have intel.ko installed. The only Intel module I have is snd-hda-intel.ko. The package xorg-x11-video-driver has the files intel_drv.la and intel_drv.so. Am I missing a package? How can I get the intel.ko driver installed?

Thanks,

Dave

----- Original Message ----

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From: Dave To: David C. Rankin ; opensuse@opensuse.org Sent: Sunday, February 8, 2009 10:47:48 AM Subject: Re: [opensuse] 11.1 Intel Graphic Problem on Dell Notebook

When I ran locate to find the intel.ko driver there was no output whatsoever. I ran it as root and after entering 'locate intel.ko' I was taken back to the command prompt. I have never used locate before but was expecting either the path to the file or a file not found message. Is this normal behavior for locate? Locate is installed on my machine at /usr/bin/locate. Yast2 shows the video driver package with the intel driver is installed. The man page for the Intel driver is installed and can be read. How else can I determine if the intel driver is installed properly?

I did a network install on this machine. Is it possible the video driver package was corrupted? Anyway, here are the requested files. I included the xorg.conf file located in the /temp directory as that is the one sax2 used to configure the xserver. The files are very large so I will attempt to attach them, hopefully the mailing list will allow this.

Thanks again,

Dave

Yes, You are missing something. I don't know how the intel driver code works loading the driver, but I think I know enough to know that if your xorg.conf has its driver line as: Driver "intel" and you don't have an intel.ko on your system, your not loading anything and Xf86 is most likely falling back to the intelfb.ko or the vfb.ko. Post you /var/log/Xorg.0.Log file so we can see what is happening. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Pit Suetterlin wrote:

Hi David, That said, I'm extremely unhappy with the 11.1 intel driver anyhow, it's complete crap for my old 855GM, with font display ugly and xrandr not working at all (you have to CTRL-ALT-Backspace the xserver after trying to change screen resolution). And i810 isn't supported anymore.... (that's why I'm not using 11.1)

Pit

Pit, I got so frustrated with things appearing/disappearing on my 11.1 desktop, that I just stopped using 11.1 altogether. In my opinion, 11.1 is just a beta release for what hopefully will be a usable 11.2. I never ran the 10.1 release either, which I recall generating a comparable amount of usability problems on the list as well. As long as everybody has an account on bugzilla.novell.com and *are* filing bug reports on things that don't work and need to be fixed, then we have a good shot at a good 11.2. (Which if anyone from novell is listening -- We are in _NO_ HURRY for _until_ it is *READY* to be released as a solid working release with a solid working desktop) Forget the rapid-shot release schedule and listen to the developers who know whether it is ready or not and whether we will have 1.8G of patches and updates within the first 30 days of release. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Dave wrote:

I guess I need to know the bottom line. Is there an Intel driver on my machine? If not, how can I get it on there, if it is how can I get it to work at all, and how can I get sax2 to use the 1024x786@60 screen resolution? I am willing to experiment or whatever to get this machine working.

Have you checked the /var/log/Xorg.0.log? It should tell you if the driver is loaded (successfully) or not, like here: (II) LoadModule: "intel" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//drivers/intel_drv.so (II) Module intel: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 1.5.2, module version = 2.5.0 Module class: X.Org Video Driver ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 4.1 . . . (II) intel: Driver for Intel Integrated Graphics Chipsets: i810, i810-dc100, i810e, i815, i830M, 845G, 852GM/855GM, 865G, 915G, E7221 (i915), 915GM, 945G, 945GM, 945GME, 965G, G35, 965Q, 946GZ, 965GM, 965GME/GLE, G33, Q35, Q33, Mobile Intel® GM45 Express Chipset, Intel Integrated Graphics Device, G45/G43, Q45/Q43, G41 . . . (**) intel(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32 (==) intel(0): RGB weight 888 (==) intel(0): Default visual is TrueColor (II) intel(0): Integrated Graphics Chipset: Intel(R) 855GM (--) intel(0): Chipset: "852GM/855GM" (--) intel(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xF0000000 (--) intel(0): IO registers at addr 0xFFA80000 (WW) intel(0): libpciaccess reported 0 rom size, guessing 64kB (==) intel(0): Using EXA for acceleration (II) intel(0): 2 display pipes available. Cheers, Pit -- Dr. Peter "Pit" Suetterlin http://www.astro.su.se/~pit Institute for Solar Physics Tel.: +34 922 405 590 (Spain) P.Suetterlin@royac.iac.es +46 8 5537 8534 (Sweden) Peter.Suetterlin@astro.su.se -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Dave wrote:

I sent my last email before I got this one. I went ahead and retried the sax2 command this time using just intel

sax2 -r -m 0=intel --vesa 0:1024x768@60

I am back at the garbled screen but the Xorg.0.log and SaX.log show that the intel_drv.so module is being correctly loaded. At the end of these files it shows the server exits with a fatal server error, lockup. I am attaching these files for your review. Perhaps you can figure out what is going wrong.

Thanks,

Dave

Two thoughts, From your sax2 logs it looks like you are getting a slightly different modeline (FbTiming) than is returned by gtf. Now this may or may not be the problem. Usually your monitor adjustment can handle the difference, but, if that difference is too large, then you can get the problems you are seeing. In your log, sax2 is setting up the following: 11-Feb 11:19:52 <I> [ Sysp: XStuff detection data <snip> Card0 => Vsync : 61 Card0 => Hsync : 48 Card0 => Vesa : 1024 768 47 60 Card0 => FbTiming : "1024x768" 62.35 1024 1056 1184 1312 768 772 776 792 -HSync -VSync The FbTiming is different from the timings returned by the gtf utility. Presumably sax2 has the latest and greatest stuff to handle lcd monitors, but you never know. Using gtf, I get the following for a resolution of 1024x768 at 60Hz: 12:11 ripper~/linux/ati/compiz> gtf 1024 768 60 # 1024x768 @ 60.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 47.70 kHz; pclk: 64.11 MHz Modeline "1024x768_60.00" 64.11 1024 1080 1184 1344 768 769 772 795 -HSync +Vsync Looking at the modlines one above the other you see: "1024x768" 62.35 1024 1056 1184 1312 768 772 776 792 -HSync -VSync "1024x768" 64.11 1024 1080 1184 1344 768 769 772 795 -HSync +Vsync Try replacing the Modeline in the Modes section with the one computed by gtf. Just cut and past the following into your xorg.conf: Section "Modes" Identifier "Modes[0]" Modeline "1024x768" 64.11 1024 1080 1184 1344 768 769 772 795 -HSync +Vsync EndSection Additionally, for now, get rid of the "Virtual" screen resolutions in your xorg.conf. Just edit your xorg.conf and delete every line in the "Screen" Section that has "Virtual" in it like: Virtual 2048 1200 Just delete them, it won't hurt anything. The Xorg.0.log looks OK until the lockup which seems to indicate and IRQ issue?? (_fence_emit_internal: drm_i915_irq_emit: -9) This may help and will be a good test. Reboot your computer and at the green grub login screen, arrow down to the kernel parameters entry line and add the following without the quotes: "noapic nolapic acpi=off" Then (1) see if your config works after the changes above, if not, then (2) try generating a new xorg in the manner you have tried before. I still recommend either: sax2 or sax2 -r -m 0=intel If you get a usable screen, then eliminate 'acpi=off' first and subsequently try removing noapic then nolapic. If all else fails, then it is time for some reading. Start with: http://www.3111skyline.com/linux/intel-LinuxDriver.php See the first link: down toward the bottom of the page: "Intel Linux Graphics Driver Installation Guide" and there go to 3. 2D only driver build If you do actually think about building the driver, download an example of what the build environment should look like to confirm you have put all the source packages in the right place: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/linux/xwindows/BuildingX.bz2 Hopefully you won't have to get that far. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Pit Suetterlin wrote:

Hi Dave,

This seems to be where the trouble starts: [from the Xorg log }

(WW) intel(0): PRB0_CTL (0x0001f001) indicates ring buffer enabled (WW) intel(0): PRB0_HEAD (0x00000024) and PRB0_TAIL (0x00000068) indicate ring buffer not flushed (WW) intel(0): Existing errors found in hardware state. Error in I830WaitLpRing(), timeout for 2 seconds

Apart from that the log looks very similar to the one I get from my 855GM card. Now, I have no clue what the message really means. But maybe it helps to ask more specific questions to the HW gurus....

Pit

Yes, that makes the most sense. If it were a desktop, I'd tell you to just stuff another card in there and see what happens. Laptops are another story. There is always the possibility that somebody just borked the driver for the laptop cards too. While the laptops claim to have an "Intel" this or a "Radeon" that, laptop gpu's are just different hardware when you get down to it. Good luck with the hw gurus. We know how much help dell will be.... Sad, my first 'notebook' was a dell 486 purchased in 1993 with an 800 meg hard drive. When something broke on it, Dell would send a service rep to my place of business to repair it on-site. Things have sure changed. Trumpet winsock, a 14,400 baud PCMCIA modem, pegasus mail, compuserve, bulletin boards, z-modem... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org