The latestest inter driver (xorg-x11-drv-i810-2.0.0-4.fc7) broke the VGA output on my laptop's 945GM. I have 2 screens attached to the docking station one on DVI (still works) and one on VGA which no longer works. There were issues with dual screen but that's a different issue entirely! The issue with the VGA seems to be mentioned in this mailing list thread http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2007-June/025182.html and it looks like it fixed it the latest git repo. So can we do another update to see if it fixes the issues.
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 158412 [details] xorg.log from xorg.conf This is the log file from starting with a xorg.conf (config file attached next)
Created attachment 158413 [details] xorg.conf the xorg.conf to go with the log file
Created attachment 158414 [details] xorg.log from autodetect attached is the x.org log from starting with no xorg.conf file
Details provided. Let me know if you need any more info.
xorg-x11-drv-i810-2.1.0-1.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Actually, please, make note here even if the upgrade didn't help.
It didn't work. I'm going to roll back to the original one that worked and get the original log. then upgrade again. The 2.1.0 driver all exhibits some interesting bits that weren't seen prev. If I remove the xorg.conf file with the external screen attached it detects the 1280x1024 fine and starts up. If I then remove the laptop from the dock and startup again (ie go home) just on my laptop screen (1440x900) it doesn't detect it properly so you get the X doesn't start dialog do you want to configure it. I spec the screen res and it starts fine. It did this with the prev version too but the difference is that the previous version would clip the screen (IE the screen seemed to be 1440 wide but only showed 1280 - you could loose the mouse off the side) now its extremely flickery and you need to go to a console and rm the xorg.conf and Ctrl+Alt+Bkspc to get it back. When there's no xorg.conf file it also does weird things with the UK keyboard but that's another bug entirely!
Before downgrading to the older driver, could we get an output of xrandr -q command, please?
[root@localhost ~]# xrandr -q Screen 0: minimum 640 x 480, current 1280 x 1024, maximum 1280 x 1024 default connected 1280x1024+0+0 (normal left inverted right) 0mm x 0mm 1280x1024 75.0* 1024x768 75.0 800x600 75.0 640x480 75.0 [root@localhost ~]#
OK this is weird! As a follow on from my Comment #8 above when not docked I get a totally different output. So to cover my setups a little better: Dell D620 laptop with a 1440x900 14.1 inch display (there's 2 options when ordering) and a Ddock replicator. Attached to the Ddock are 2 identical HP 19 inch LCD displays (one to the DVI port and one to the VGA port. [root@localhost log]# lspci | grep 945GM 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) [root@localhost log]# At work when connected to the dock I run with the laptop closed off (in theory) the 2 LCDs (works fine in windows). When elsewhere I run off the laptop display. When moving to the dock (working previously on the laptop 1440x900 display moving 2 external lcds) I now get a buzzing static display (its recognizable but it looks like its displaying the first 1280 and wrapping the remainder of the 1440). I remove the xorg.conf do a ctrl+alt+bkspc and it auto detects and away I go (see xrandr above for output). When moving from the dock (working previously on external lcd) to the built in 1440x900 I get X will not start (will attach logs shortly) and I have to go through the config druid. It only detects 800x600 so I have to specify a 1440x900 generic LCD. It then starts as expected. The interesting part of this is if you look through the TUI log files its using the i810 driver not the intel driver. Below is the xrandr for just the local laptop panel.... interesting that it sees the vga etc now.... disconnected! [root@localhost ~]# xrandr -q Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1440 x 900, maximum 1440 x 1440 VGA disconnected (normal left inverted right) LVDS connected 1440x900+0+0 (normal left inverted right) 304mm x 190mm 1440x900 60.0*+ 1360x768 59.8 60.0 1280x800 60.0 1152x864 60.0 1280x768 60.0 1280x720 60.0 1024x768 60.0 800x600 60.3 640x480 59.9 TMDS-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right) TV disconnected (normal left inverted right) [root@localhost ~]#
Created attachment 159001 [details] laptop display no dock auto detect log I had 2 different logs from during the "we can't start X process". One from the initial startup and one from during the detection before manually specifying the display resolution of 1440x900. Doing a diff on them just gave some different hex addresses so they are the same.... so here's one for ref
So does this still occur? It sounds like you're sometimes using the i810 driver, what happens if you always use the intel driver?
No I was always using the Intel driver (the i810 driver didn't detect the 1440x900 res of the laptop. Unfortunately I don't have this setup anymore as I've changed jobs. The VGA screen disappeared between 2.0.0 and 2.1.0
Ah ok. Well there have been a few VGA detection fixes since 2.1.0, so this bug is probably fixed. But it sounds like you can't test anymore so we should probably just close this bug.
We don't do it -- we may eventually (for some inexplicable reason ;-)) actually provide update for F7 and then it could get fixed. Otherwise it will get closed together with all other F7 bugs when F7 will ceased to be supported.
Closing this as I can't properly test it and the xorg-intel driver has changed so much between when I reported this and what I'm running now (Fedora 9 rawhide - basically F9 Beta).