From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: Since installation of Core 3, I have been unable to get a dual-head setup working with the i810 driver (or a single monitor setup using i810, for that matter). Fortunately, I have an nv card that works fine. I had a working setup in Core 1 with the same hardware. I have tried various "fixes" detailed in other i810 bug reports without any success, and the latest package doesn't provide a fix either. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xorg-x11-6.8.1-12.FC3.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.startx or X -config with attached xorg.conf 2. 3. Actual Results: System reboots. Expected Results: X windows with dual monitor setup. Additional info: I get the following errors in my Xorg log: ... (II) I810(1): initializing int10 (EE) I810(1): Cannot read V_BIOS (II) I810(1): this driver cannot do DDC without VBE ... (II) I810(1): [agp] GART: no dcache memory found (II) I810(1): [agp] Bound backbuffer memory (II) I810(1): [agp] Bound depthbuffer memory (EE) I810(1): [agp] Unable to allocate system texture memory. Disabling DRI. (II) I810(1): [drm] removed 1 reserved context for kernel
Created attachment 106959 [details] Bug-related config file
Created attachment 106960 [details] Bug-related log file
Changed the primary video controller setting in BIOS to onboard (i810). Computer doesn't reboot now, but i810 display shows garbage.
Problem has been "fixed" by installing i810 module directly from Xorg CVS. I still consider this a bug, since a dual-head setup could be performed easily under Core 1 without tweaked BIOS setting. What has changed since then that would cause it to break under Core 3?
Red Hat hasn't changed anything at all in X in the i810 driver. You'd really need to ask the X.Org developers who wrote and maintain the i810 driver, or take a diff of the sources between the two versions of X between when it worked and does not work. We just ship what X.Org supplies, however we do not have any involvement in the direct developement of the i810 driver. I would recommend re-asking your question from comment #4 on the xorg mailing list forum, where it might hit the developers who work on the code. I also would recommend filing a bug report in the X.Org bugzilla at http://bugs.freedesktop.org in the "xorg" component, which will increase the likelyhood of someone being able to fix it sooner. There will be a bugfix release of X.Org 6.8.2 sometime probably in January, so letting them know of this problem now might result in it being fixed for the 6.8.2 release. When you file your bug in freedesktop bugzilla, paste the URL here and Red Hat will track the issue in the official bugzilla and review any bug fixes for potential inclusion in future Fedora Core 3 X.Org updates. Hope this helps, thanks in advance.
I have been "mirroring" this bug in the freedesktop bugzilla https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1884. Another bug report (possibly a dup?) seems to report similar problems https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1455. It didn't appear that reports there got that much attention, so I reported it here in the hopes that it would. So, thank _you_ for the response and for the work that you are doing.
Bugs reported to X.Org do get attention, but wont necessarily get immediate attention. X.Org is developed by volunteers who individually work on the things they personally decide to hack on at any given time, so there is no guaranteed response time on a given bug that gets filed there. In general, most bugs that are filed there will get reviewed at least once before the next major X release, and a majority of the issues addressed. Once one has filed a bug in X.Org bugzilla, the best thing to do is to either wait, or to continue to try and add any relevant information to the bug report. It's also a good idea to use the xorg mailing list to try to find out what additional information or troubleshooting steps you might be able to do to assist the developers who are working on the particular area of code the problem is being experienced in. Generally speaking, driver bugs are best handled by the upstream driver maintainers, or the hardware companies who supply patches for the drivers to add new support. Open source volunteer developers also contribute of course, and so does Red Hat and other vendors, but nobody has all of the wide array of video hardware out there, and there always seems to be about 10 times as many bugs at any one given time than there are people and man hours available to investigate them. ;o) As such, I would always recommend reporting driver bugs to X.Org first, since that hits the entire X development community, whereas reporting to Red Hat, usually hits only 1 to 4 developers who often already have heavy works schedules lined up. It does not hurt to report bugs in both places though, as that may maximize the chance of something being fixed even sooner, however we do internally use the X.Org bugzilla ourselves too, so if you file there, we'll usually see it too. Thanks for the bug URLs for tracking! If we find a fix for this, we'll update all 3 reports. Take care, TTYL
We have added a patch taken from X.Org CVS head for the Intel i810 driver, that is known to fix various issues in the 6.8.1 i810 driver. The new driver is now integrated into the latest xorg-x11 update available for Fedora Core 3, and may resolve this issue for you. Please upgrade to our latest kernel and xorg-x11 rpms for FC3, and update the report to indicate if it resolves the problem for you. Thanks in advance.
I performed the update, and booted with the nVidia card set as primary, and onboard i810 as secondary in the BIOS. Now, startx doesn't reboot the system with dual-head setup, but the display running i810 becomes garbled and the server locks up. Booting with the i810 set as primary and nVidia set as secondary works fine (i810 soft-boot problem?).
Created attachment 108042 [details] Bug-related log file Here is the latest log. It seems that there are still remants of my previous install from CVS. I'm assuming that the RPM overwrites all the pertinant files?
Does FC4 work for you on the same setup?
Since this bugzilla report was filed, there have been several major updates to the X Window System, which may resolve this issue. Users who have experienced this problem are encouraged to upgrade to the latest version of Fedora Core, which can be obtained from: http://fedora.redhat.com/download If this issue turns out to still be reproduceable in the latest version of Fedora Core, please file a bug report in the X.Org bugzilla located at http://bugs.freedesktop.org in the "xorg" component. Once you've filed your bug report to X.Org, if you paste the new bug URL here, Red Hat will continue to track the issue in the centralized X.Org bug tracker, and will review any bug fixes that become available for consideration in future updates. Setting status to "CURRENTRELEASE".