No X on F9/F10 with Intel 82915G/GV/910GL

[Aioanei Rares]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Jos Vos <jos at xos.nl> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On a somewhat special piece of hardware (point-of-sale hardware) where
> I can successfully run RHEL4 and RHEL5, I can't get F9 or F10 working
> w.r.t. graphics.  That is, I just get a black screen, X doesn't die!
> I've now installed F10 (text mode installer).
>
> I did not try Fedora on that hardware until recently and after it failed,
> I decided to wait till F10, without luck.
>
> The "lspci -v" output for the VGA card is:
>
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82915G/GV/910GL
> Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0e) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
>        Subsystem: Intel Corporation 82915G/GV/910GL Integrated Graphics
> Controller
>        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
>        Memory at fdf00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
>        I/O ports at ff00 [size=8]
>        Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
>        Memory at fdf80000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
>        Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2
>        Kernel modules: intelfb
>
> The last "(EE)" message from Xorg.0.log is:
>
>    (EE) intel(0): Bad VBT signature
>
> I can send the full Xorg.0.log if needed, but I didn't want to spam
> the list with that right now.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
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Try vesa.
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Aioanei Rares
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