Bug 698024

Summary: xorg-x11-drv-intel doesnt work with sandybridge
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Mohammed Arafa <bugzilla>
Component: xorg-x11-drv-intelAssignee: Adam Jackson <ajax>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 15CC: ajax, xgl-maint
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Last Closed: 2011-04-23 20:41:38 UTC Type: ---
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Xorg.log when using intel driver
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dump of rom none

Description Mohammed Arafa 2011-04-20 00:46:35 UTC
Description of problem:
when i tell xorg.conf to use "intel" driver instead of "vesa" i get a blank screen



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.14.0-5.fc15.x86_64

How reproducible:
everytime

Steps to Reproduce:
1.tell xorg.conf to use intel
2.restart x
3.
  
Actual results:
black screen

Expected results:
lovely colourful graphics

Additional info:
lspci | grep -i vga
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 0126 (rev 09)

lspci -vs 00:02.0
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 0126 (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
        Subsystem: Lenovo Device 21ce
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 43
        Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
        Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
        I/O ports at 5000 [size=64]
        Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
        Capabilities: [90] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
        Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [a4] PCI Advanced Features
        Kernel modules: i915

lsmod | grep -i intel
snd_hda_intel          23694  2 
snd_hda_codec          80822  3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_conexant,snd_hda_intel
snd_pcm                78769  3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd                    62654  13 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_conexant,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm,snd_timer
snd_page_alloc          7431  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
kvm_intel              43336  0 
kvm                   306680  1 kvm_intel

Comment 1 Mohammed Arafa 2011-04-20 01:02:10 UTC
Created attachment 493327 [details]
Xorg.log when using intel driver

Comment 2 Mohammed Arafa 2011-04-20 01:22:02 UTC
intel_reg_snapshot > /tmp/snapshot
Couldn't map MMIO region: No such file or directory

Comment 3 Mohammed Arafa 2011-04-20 01:22:38 UTC
Created attachment 493334 [details]
dump of rom

Comment 4 Mohammed Arafa 2011-04-23 20:41:38 UTC
remove nomodeset from grub and booted - it worked