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

Tue Dec 2 05:06:04 UTC 2008

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

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Jason Dickerson
<jason.dickerson at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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