Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 140996
Dell Poweredge 420 Server video not supported
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:55 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: I just got a brand new Dell PowerEdge SC420 server. I installed FC3 and Xorg would kill the video signal and the keyboard as well every time upon boot. Logs say it found an "Unknown Intel Chipset". It took a while to figure out that the driver is loading is the Gereric Vesa driver and the only resolution it supports is 800x600 16. Once I forced this mode, X came up right away. Anyone knows what Video is this thing using? Dell doesn't say. Is it supported by Xorg? My quess is not. All I know is the Chipset on this board is the Intel E7221. A chipset I couldn't even find on the Intel site. Is this custom made for Dell or what? I can't work on 800x600. Is there a workaround for this problem? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xorg-x11-6.8.1-12 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start machine 2. wait for X to kick in 3. Monitor signal is gone 4. keyboard is gone Actual Results: There is no monitor signal or keyboard Expected Results: X to start Additional info: Temoporary work around is to edit xorg.conf to default to 16 bit 800x600... LAME!
Intel® E7221 had to add "base=0xf0000000 size=0x800000 type=write-combining" >| /proc/mtrr to get it to work at all . VESA VBE OEM Product: Intel(r)CopperRiver Graphics Controller Xorg 6.8.1,
Please attach the X server log file and config file, and /var/log/messages from after starting up a failed X session, as individual uncompressed file attachments. Also attach the output of "lsmod -v" and "lsmod -vvn". Once you have attached the requested information, we will review the details, and try to determine the cause of the problem. Thanks in advance.
This bug has not been updated to provide us with the information we've requested above. If you have not already updated to the latest Fedora Core xorg-x11 and kernel updates, please do so now and if you still encounter the problem described above, please report the issue to X.Org bugzilla at http://bugs.freedestop.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 "NOTABUG" due to lack of information.