Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 206643
intel(4) whitelist: Dell Inspiron 700m
Last modified: 2008-02-14 10:48:36 EST
Description of problem: During installation of test3 on a Dell Inspiron 700m, the graphical install screen is offcenter (to the top left) using only two-thirds of the screen. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Very. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot from CD from installation. Actual results: Display not full screen. Expected results: Display full screen. Additional info: The integrated graphics card (intel) was detected during boot. The screen resolution is 1280x800.
I think this is the no-EDID issue as fixed in xorg-x11-drv-i810-1.6.5-6 and later. Can you attach the X log from a failed X session?
Created attachment 136387 [details] X.log from anaconda I grabbed the X.log that anaconda writes during installation.
Ah, different (and very old) issue. The native panel size is 1280x800, but the VESA BIOS contains no 1280x800 modes; since the 'i810' driver can only set those modes listed in the BIOS, it simply picks the closest match instead. After install, if you change Driver "i810" to Driver "intel" in xorg.conf, do you get the native panel size? If so I can add your hardware to the whitelist for the new driver.
I switched the driver to Intel and removed the call to 855resolution in my initscripts. After a reboot, X ran fine. It's great to see I don't have to bother with 855resolution any more.
Updating summary. FC6 is in deep freeze right now, but we'll add this hardware to the whitelist for FC6 updates.
The same issue persists in FC7 test 2. Changing the driver to intel, fixes the problem.
Fedora Core 5 and Fedora Core 6 are, as we're sure you've noticed, no longer test releases. We're cleaning up the bug database and making sure important bug reports filed against these test releases don't get lost. It would be helpful if you could test this issue with a released version of Fedora or with the latest development / test release. Thanks for your help and for your patience. [This is a bulk message for all open FC5/FC6 test release bugs. 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.]
The same problem is in FC7 test 4.
Thanks for the bug report. We have reviewed the information you have provided above, and there is some additional information we require that will be helpful in our diagnosis of this issue. Please attach your X server config file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf) and X server log file (/var/log/Xorg.*.log) to the bug report as individual uncompressed file attachments using the bugzilla file attachment link below. Could you please also try to run without any /etc/X11/xorg.conf whatsoever and let X11 autodetect your display and video card? Attach to this bug /var/log/Xorg.0.log from this attempt as well, please. We will review this issue again once you've had a chance to attach this information. Thanks in advance.
Created attachment 155707 [details] Currently used xorg.conf
Created attachment 155708 [details] X log
Created attachment 155710 [details] Another X log
Created attachment 155711 [details] X log after autodetect Here is the X log created after xorg.conf is removed and the laptop restarted. The screen came up in 1024x768 resolution. Also to be clear, the original problem with the boot screen during installation not being fullscreen is fixed. The remaining issue is just having X be correctly autoconfigured.
HIi, I've got 700m. Just installed FC7 (fresh install) and it defaulted to 1024x768 with the i810 driver. I switched to the intel driver and it works with 1280x800 but it has locked up about 3 times today. Mouse freezes and keyboard is unresponsive. It's quite random when it freezes. I have not tried installing any 3rd party drivers. 1st time it froze I tried playing a video. I changed the video output (mplayer) from xv to gl output and it didn't freeze after I did that but has frozen when I was installing something with pirut.
Please update to xorg-x11-drv-intel 2.1.1 and see if this is still an issue for you.
I don't see a package named xorg-x11-drv-intel available. Is it in a separate testing repositoru? Also, I experience the same problems zaku describes. In particular making xine from freshrpms fullscreen while playing a video causes the laptop to freeze. Of course this could be freshrpms fault.
Sounds like the intel driver gives you the modes you want but has other Xv related problems (which may be fixed now). So this can probably be closed and other bugs filed for the Xv problems.
intel(4) everywhere in F9, closing.