Florian Mickler wrote on Wednesday, October 07, 2009 11:29 AM: > Hi, > > On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 23:16:31 +0200 > Łukasz Maśko <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Dnia wtorek, 6 października 2009, Florian Mickler napisał: >>> On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 14:18:12 +0200 >>> >>> Łukasz Maśko <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> I've installed the above combination (intel driver rebuilt with >>>> xserver >>>> 1.7.0), but the only thing I'm getting is a blank, black screen and >>>> hard lock of my machine - nothing is working, I have to hold the >>>> power button to turn my laptop off. There is nothing in logs that >>>> can tell me, what is wrong. >>>> >>>> My laptop has an Intel i855GM chipset. I'm using PLD linux with >>>> 2.6.31 kernel, xserver 1.6.3 and intel driver 2.9.0 (rebuilt with >>>> xserver >>>> 1.6.x) and with whese versions everything works well. >>> >>> What are you doing, when you get the blank screen? >>> Are you booting (if so, try to boot with i915.modeset=0 on the >>> kernel cmdline to make sure, it is working in text-mode) or are you >>> getting the blank screen only after starting X? >> >> I don't use KMS, becouse on my chipset I can use either KMS or >> XVideo, but not both at the same time. I'm getting blank screen when >> starting X with startx. > > well in that case you could try to startx and have "sleep 30 && chvt > 1" in the background, to change back to your console... (or killall > X, but if only X hangs, that may eventually not restore the > graphics?) ) but i guess that, because your sysrq-keys are not > working, that it won't come to that... > > if that works, you can debug the issue further by looking at the logs > (which may not survive a cold-reset, depending on the filesystem...) > > if not and you have no other computer around, you are probably out of > luck to find out why it's not working. > > most people try to update various x-server dependencies in that > case ... libdrm, mesa, xf86-input-evdev (or -mouse/-kbd) and > whatnot... > > ah, i forgot: you probably wanna take a look here: > http://intellinuxgraphics.org/2009Q3.html and open a bug report at > bugs.freedesktop.org against xorg|driver/intel for this 'meta' > release... > otherwise the dependencies are hard to get right.
This is probably the known issue for 855/UMS: http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23568. I've promoted it to high priority and hope zhenyu would investigate it soon. Gordon _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
