Bug 155982

After installing FC3/4test2 using textmode and installing the Intel 815 module
from the intel site. I can use the graphical mode.

Can you post the output of lspci?

the output of lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express
Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML
Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express
Graphics Controller (rev 03)

Stupid me, here is is some more detailed info :)

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express
Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 03)
        Subsystem: Dell: Unknown device 0182
        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
        Capabilities: [e0] Vendor Specific Information

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML
Express Graphics Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
        Subsystem: Dell: Unknown device 0182
        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 11
        Region 0: Memory at dff00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
        Region 1: I/O ports at ec38 [size=8]
        Region 2: Memory at c0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
        Region 3: Memory at dfec0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
        Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express
Graphics Controller (rev 03)
        Subsystem: Dell: Unknown device 0182
        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 dff80000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
        Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

If you just use the stock 'i810' driver, does it work?

It DOES work with the dri i810 driver.

Does it work with the stock i810 driver shipped with Fedora Core (as opposed to
the one from dri.sf.net)? Am I misunderstanding what you mean by 'dri i810 driver'?

Hmm well i used the one from Intel's ftp, I could check the "stock" i810 driver
in fedora, if needed and see the results with that.

Yes, please.

Basically:

1) if the stock one doesn't work, then the setup program is doing more-or-less
the right thing, and this can then be closed
2) if the stock one *does* work, we know what to fix to enable detection of it,
so we can then fix that (and then this can be closed.)

:)

i915GM is not supported in 6.8.2 and will not work with the stock
FC4 i810 driver.  The autodetection software is doing the right thing
by assigning the "vesa" driver right now.

CVS head contains i915GM support, which will be in X11R7, which will
be in FC5.

Oke clear to me. But anaconda still "crashes" using vesa, nothing to do about
that (apart from changing setup params)?

Well, if the VESA driver crashes, the fault is either in the VESA driver or in
the VESA emulation of the graphics card. Assigng to the X server for now.

If the "vesa" driver fails to provide a working X session, that generally
means it is a video BIOS bug.

In order to diagnose this, we'll need you to perform the following steps:

1) Do a text mode OS install.
2) After installation, reboot and log in as root.
3) Run system-config-display --reconfig
4) Run "startx" to start the X server.

Indicate if this works or not, and attach the X server log file and config
file from after the testing, by using the bugzilla file attachment link
below.

Created attachment 113825 [details]
xorg log file

It seems xorg does run, but only with a black screen. Log file included

Can you test 6.8.2-45 ? It has a fix relative to video bios.

Oops forget to tell, new xorg does work :)

this is certainly not fixed in the current release (of Fedora).

And to answer comment 15, I rebuilt the 6.8.2-45 SRPM and it failed as before in
VESA mode.  I also noticed that hooking up an external monitor and switching the
display to that and then back gets the VESA mode working.

marcel:  If you are still experiencing the problem originally reported
using the latest FC update, feel free to reopen the bug and update
with any status/comments that might be helpful.