I have come up with a working xorg.conf for the Fedora 10 xorg-x11-i810 "intel" driver for the i830M chipset on a Thinkpad X30. The new Fedora 10 driver uses the new EXA acceleration method. If you use xorg.conf to force XAA Acceleration, the driver works just like the Fedora 9 driver. No corrupt background, infinite loops, or text/font corruption. Big thanks to Michael Young for pointing me in the right direction! Working xorg.conf is below: Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "LCD Panel" VendorName "IBM" ModelName "X30 1024x768" Option "dpms" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "External Panel" VendorName "Monitor Vendor" ModelName "Generic Monitor" Option "dpms" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Intel i830M" Driver "intel" VendorName "Intel" BoardName "Intel Corporation 82830 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller]" BusID "PCI:0:2:0" Option "monitor-LVDS" "LCD Panel" Option "monitor-VGA" "External Panel" Option "AccelMethod" "XAA" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Intel i830M" Monitor "LCD Panel" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Virtual 1024 768 EndSubSection EndSection Section "DRI" Group 0 Mode 0666 EndSection Enjoy everyone! Jason Dickerson <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Jason Dickerson <<a href="mailto:jason.dickerson@gmail.com">jason.dickerson@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Thanks for the NoAccel suggestion Michael. That worked, no more video corruption. However, I had to drop my resolution from 1024x768 to 800x600 in order to get a decent frame rate playing videos. Thanks again, Jason Dickerson<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 1:43 AM, Jason Dickerson <<a href="mailto:jason.dickerson@gmail.com" target="_blank">jason.dickerson@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div>I have a Thinkpad X30 with the Intel i830M video chipset. I cannot boot a live cd or use the graphical anaconda install. Whenever X attempts to start I get video corruption for the background and a box drawn but not filled in, whether it is a login box or an installation box. In order to upgrade from Fedora 9 to 10, I did a text based upgrade from the DVD. Then I booted to runlevel 3, manually started networking, and ran 'yum -y update'. At this point it was running all the latest Fedora 10 release packages, but would still not go into X properly. Same problem. The error message in Xorg.0.log is this, repeated over and over: </div> <div> [mi] mieqEnequeue: out-of-order valuator event; dropping. [mi] EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop. I then downloaded the latest version of xorg-x11-drivers and xorg-x11-drv-i810 for Fedora 9. I uninstalled the Fedora 10 versions, and installed the Fedora 9 versions. This seems to have fixed my issue, for the most part. The only problem now, is corrupt text in X after a while. Other things I tried and did not work: look for a video memory setting in bios and set to the highest value. there is no such setting on the thinkpad x30 set video driver to vesa. vesa driver could not properly initialize screen it looked like a tie died t-shirt went to koji's website and downloaded every version of Fedora 10 xorg-x11-drv-i810. all have same problem, or could not allocate frame buffer. I will be happy to post any necessary supporting/debugging information. It seems to me I just have to wait for a corrected intel driver. lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82830 830 Chipset Host Bridge (rev 04) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82830 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller] (rev 04) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82830 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller] 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB Controller #1 (rev 02) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB Controller #2 (rev 02) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB Controller #3 (rev 02) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 42) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801CAM ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801CAM IDE U100 Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM SMBus Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 02) 01:00.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev a8) 01:00.1 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev a8) 01:00.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C552 IEEE 1394 Controller 01:02.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset (rev 01) 01:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82801CAM (ICH3) PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller (rev 42) 02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03) xorg.conf Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "LCD Panel" VendorName "IBM" ModelName "X30 1024x768" Option "dpms" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "External Panel" VendorName "Monitor Vendor" ModelName "Generic Monitor" Option "dpms" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Intel i830M" Driver "intel" VendorName "Intel" BoardName "Intel Corporation 82830 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller]" BusID "PCI:0:2:0" Option "monitor-LVDS" "LCD Panel" Option "monitor-VGA" "External Panel" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Intel i830M" Monitor "LCD Panel" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Virtual 1024 768 EndSubSection EndSection Section "DRI" Group 0 Mode 0666 EndSection If anyone can help, I would really appreciate it! Jason Dickerson </div> </blockquote></div> </div></div></blockquote></div>