Bug 476491

Summary: Xorg doesn't start after upgrade from F9 to F-10 w/o changing driver from i810 to intel
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov>
Component: xorg-x11-drv-i810Assignee: Adam Jackson <ajax>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 10CC: al.dunsmuir, mcepl, xgl-maint
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Description Peter Lemenkov 2008-12-15 08:41:03 UTC
Created attachment 326922 [details]
Xorg log with i810 as driver

Hello!
Looks like something was changed in xorg-x11-drv-i810. All worked fine on my PC with F-9 installed with the following "Device" section in xorg.conf:

=======================
Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard0"
       Driver      "i810"
EndSection
=======================

Unfortunately, after upgrading to F-10 (I always do yum upgrade - I'm a brave guy :)) Xorg doesn't start (see afttached Xorg.log.i810) until I changed "Driver" in "Device" section to "intel.

I don't know whether this is a known issue or not (it's easy to fix).

In any case - here is my report.

Comment 1 Peter Lemenkov 2008-12-15 08:46:07 UTC
Created attachment 326923 [details]
Xorg log with intel as driver

Comment 2 Peter Lemenkov 2008-12-15 08:47:14 UTC
Created attachment 326924 [details]
xorg.conf

Comment 3 Matěj Cepl 2008-12-20 23:44:08 UTC
Passing to developers, but I think that you may actually not need xorg.conf at all. What happens when you just rename xorg.conf and restart X Window? Does it help?

Comment 4 Peter Lemenkov 2009-01-21 13:19:23 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> Passing to developers, but I think that you may actually not need xorg.conf at
> all. What happens when you just rename xorg.conf and restart X Window? Does it
> help?

Yes, it helps in my simple case (workstation for launching xterm+ssh, Firefox and Psi with default X parameters). But I can imagine more complex sutiations than mine, where this workaround can't be accepted.

Comment 5 Vedran Miletić 2009-11-05 23:12:02 UTC
Since this bugzilla report was filed, there have been several major updates in various components of the Xorg system, including Intel driver, which may have resolved this issue.
To be more precise, Intel has undergone a major rewrite during Fedora 10, 11 and 12 cycles, and whole driver is working a lot better now. Users who have experienced this problem are encouraged to retry with at least Fedora 12 Beta and see if the issue is still relevant.

Please, if you experience this problem on Fedora 12 Beta or up-to-date system running Rawhide, let us now in the comment for this bug, or whether the upgraded system works for you.

If you won't be able to reply in one month, I will have to close this bug as INSUFFICIENT_DATA. Thank you.

We hope to see how many older bugs in Intel driver are still relevant today, in hope that most of them were fixed in rewrite process.

[This is a bulk message for all open Fedora 10 i810-related bugs (39 of them are still open). I'm adding myself to the CC list for each bug, so I'll see any comments you make after this and do my best to make sure every issue gets proper attention.]

Comment 6 Bug Zapper 2009-11-18 10:28:41 UTC
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Comment 7 Vedran Miletić 2009-12-04 17:57:27 UTC
Thank you for your bug report.

We are sorry, but the Fedora Project is will soon stop longer releasing bug fixes or any other updates for this version of Fedora. There were so many changes between Fedora 10 and Fedora 12 in Intel driver and X.Org that it's very likely that this bug is fixed. This bug will be set to CLOSED:WONTFIX to reflect this, but please reopen it if the problem persists after upgrading to the latest version of Fedora (version 12), which is available from:

http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora