Problem with xorg-x11-drv-i810 on Fedora 10

[Jason Dickerson]

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

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 1:43 AM, Jason Dickerson
<jason.dickerson at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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:
>
> [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
>
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