Xorg 7.4 and intel video: blank screen.

[Robert Noland]

On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 22:27 +0100, Alexey Shuvaev 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 :)
> 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.

Unfortunately, this is at least a semi-known issue.  I had thought that
this was a bad interaction between drm and agp that I have been meaning
to track down.  Though, if you are seeing it without drm, it may be
either just agp or the intel hardware status page handling.

robert.

-- 
Robert Noland <rnoland at FreeBSD.org>
FreeBSD
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