Xorg 7.4 and intel video: blank screen.

[Paul B. Mahol]

On 2/15/09, Alexey Shuvaev <shuvaev at physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> wrote:
> Hello all!
>
> Yet another unhappy story about new Xorg 7.4 :(
>
> Symptoms: the first start of X server is good, even dri is working,
> but on the second start I got black screen and unable to switch back
> to consoles. I can still reach the box with ssh and reboot.
>
> If I disable dri, I can go up to the 3-rd start of X :)


Did you disabled both DRI and ACCEL ?

Option "NoAccel"       "1"
Option "DRI"   "0"

I found that disabling only DRI will make strange problems until
software cursor is
enabled .... cursor being drawed incorrectly(945GM).

> The second start is 'half-success': I see partially drawn 'X'-cursor
> on the black background (and it continues to be drawn, but sloooooowly)
> and I can move it with the mouse. Then, I can kill the server with
> Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. The third start is black screen with no return too :(
>
> I have tried xf86-video-intel-2.6.1 with almost the same results
> (difference is in logs only).
>
> Other info about the system:
>  ~> uname -a
> FreeBSD wep4035 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #0: Sat Feb 14 01:29:05 CET
> 2009     root at wep4035:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NOUSB  amd64
>
> vgapci0 at pci0:0:2:0:     class=0x030000 card=0x82761043 chip=0x29c28086
> rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
>     vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
>     device     = '(Bearlake) Integrated Graphics Controller'
>     class      = display
>     subclass   = VGA
>
> xorg-server-1.5.3_5,1
> xf86-video-intel-2.5.1
>
> I'm not using hald as I'm on USB2 :)
>
> Please CC me, I'm not on this list.
>
> And some logs at the end,
> Alexey.
>


-- 
Paul