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

[Jos Vos]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 03:40:47PM -0500, Adam Jackson wrote:

> In RHEL5 you'd still be using the old BIOS-based i810 driver (assuming
> you installed with 5.1 or older), which might work through blind luck.

Yes, in my RHEL5 notes I wrote that I should use the "i810" driver (maybe
there the "intel" driver was chosen by default).

I see that it's still there (/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/i810_drv.so),
but it does not seem to work (I only tried it remotely, I'm not in the
office anymore):

(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//i810_drv.so
(II) Module i810: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
        compiled for 1.5.2, module version = 2.5.0
        Module class: X.Org Video Driver
        ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 4.1
(II) intel: Driver for Intel Integrated Graphics Chipsets: i810,
        i810-dc100, i810e, i815, i830M, 845G, 852GM/855GM, 865G, 915G,
        E7221 (i915), 915GM, 945G, 945GM, 945GME, 965G, G35, 965Q, 946GZ,
        965GM, 965GME/GLE, G33, Q35, Q33,
        Mobile Intel® GM45 Express Chipset,
        Intel Integrated Graphics Device, G45/G43, Q45/Q43, G41
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 00 at 00:02:0
(EE) No devices detected.

> The current theory is that it's trying to do LVDS over SDVO, which is a
> bit insane since it has LVDS on the board already, and that's a path
> that the driver currently doesn't support.  If we could get copies of
> the video BIOS (and some testing time, if you're up for it) we can
> probably work with intel to get it going.  Probably best to do that in a
> bug, either in fedora or freedesktop bugzilla.

I see that I can't file bugs against F10 yet (I'm using the final F10
media already ;-)).  Will try again tomorrow and post the bug # here,
as a reference.

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