(Not so) funny problems with xorg-7.4 autodetection

[Rick Voland]

Robert Noland wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 20:17 -0600, Rick Voland wrote:
>> I, too, am having trouble with autodetection with xorg-7.4.
>>
>> After I type "startx", I see the usual blank, then text, then blank, but
>> X stops at a blank screen.  It does not respond to cntl-alt-backspace,
>> and only sometimes responds to the power-off button.
>>
>> I attach a tar file that contains output from dmesg, pciconf,
>> xorgconfig, and Xorg.0.log.
> 
> The attached log does not indicate any input devices.  So either it is
> hanging just before it reaches that stage or hald and dbus are not
> running, or at least have not had adequate time to finish initializing.
> 
> X -configure is the preferred way to generate a config these days.
> xf86config is going away, it may already be gone in server 1.6, but I'm
> sure it is already gone in master.
> 
> The I915 should be fine, though the configless log seems a bit strange.
> I'll should have access to a 915gm based dell this weekend to check
> that.
> 
> If the above is of no help, you could try to ssh in from another machine
> and see if you can tell what is going on, or better yet attach to the
> Xorg process with gdb and get a backtrace.
> 
> robert.

The last message in /var/log/messages is as follows.  It is the only
item after the usual boot messages.  This message only occurs after I
type "startx".


Jan 28 19:35:23 karl kernel: drmsub0: <Intel i915GM>: (child of
agp_i810.c) on agp0
Jan 28 19:35:23 karl kernel: info: [drm] AGP at 0xb0080000 0MB
Jan 28 19:35:23 karl kernel: info: [drm] Initialized i915 1.5.0 20060119
Jan 28 19:35:23 karl kernel: error: [drm:pid1127:i915_getparam] *ERROR*
i915_getparam called with no initialization


I have
libpciaccess-0.10.5_1

Do I need to do a recursive update for all ports that depend on this?


-------
$ tail -40 Xorg.0.log
(II) intel(0): 0x00733000-0x00733fff: overlay registers (4 kB,
0x000000003ff33000 physical
)
(II) intel(0): 0x007bf000:            end of stolen memory
(II) intel(0): 0x01000000-0x01ffffff: front buffer (10240 kB) X tiled
(II) intel(0): 0x02000000-0x03dfffff: exa offscreen (30720 kB)
(II) intel(0): 0x04000000-0x04ffffff: back buffer (10240 kB) X tiled
(II) intel(0): 0x05000000-0x05ffffff: depth buffer (10240 kB) X tiled
(II) intel(0): 0x06000000-0x07ffffff: classic textures (32768 kB)
(II) intel(0): 0x10000000:            end of aperture
(II) intel(0): using SSC reference clock of 100 MHz
(II) intel(0): Selecting standard 18 bit TMDS pixel format.
(II) intel(0): Output configuration:
(II) intel(0):   Pipe A is off
(II) intel(0):   Display plane A is now disabled and connected to pipe A.
(II) intel(0):   Pipe B is on
(II) intel(0):   Display plane B is now enabled and connected to pipe B.
(II) intel(0):   Output VGA is connected to pipe none
(II) intel(0):   Output LVDS is connected to pipe B
(II) intel(0):   Output TV is connected to pipe none
(II) intel(0): [drm] dma control initialized, using IRQ 16
(II) intel(0): RandR 1.2 enabled, ignore the following RandR disabled
message.
(II) intel(0): DPMS enabled
(II) intel(0): Set up textured video
(II) intel(0): Set up overlay video
(II) intel(0): direct rendering: Enabled
(--) RandR disabled
(II) Initializing built-in extension MIT-SHM
(II) Initializing built-in extension XInputExtension
(II) Initializing built-in extension XTEST
(II) Initializing built-in extension XKEYBOARD
(II) Initializing built-in extension XINERAMA
(II) Initializing built-in extension XFIXES
(II) Initializing built-in extension RENDER
(II) Initializing built-in extension RANDR
(II) Initializing built-in extension COMPOSITE
(II) Initializing built-in extension DAMAGE
(II) Initializing built-in extension XEVIE
(II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized /usr/local/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so
(II) GLX: Initialized DRISWRAST GL provider for screen 0
(II) intel(0): Setting screen physical size to 305 x 183
$
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I think the screen should be 1280x768.

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Rick Voland
rpvoland at spamcop.net




> 
>> The computer is an HP dv1000 with product number dv1331se.  It has the
>> GM915 video chip and 1 GB of RAM.
>>
>> I used no xorg.conf configuration file for xorg-7.3.x because X
>> autodetected chip, resolution, and 24-bit color just fine.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Rick Voland
>> rpvoland at spamcop.net