Help !! It's Baaack !

[mylar]

On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 11:30 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 06:11 -0500, mylar wrote:
> > Hello.

> > 
> > Any ideas. Where do I start debugging this thing ? Why would it work,
> > then not work, intermittently like that. Its one of the strangest
> > problems I've had in a looooong time. 
> 
> First off, what kind of video hardware is it?  Which driver are you
> running?  This sounds like the driver is misinterpreting the DRI data
> from the monitor on warm boots.
> 

Okay, the machine is 2.8 Ghz Dell 4600 running an Intel on board video
adapter. The video card is an Intel 82865G Integrated Graphics
Controller  and the monitor is a Dell E172FP flap panel LCD display. The
driver is the i810 driver which is the one I was told to use and, the
only one which seems to work. I'm running at a screen resolution of
1280x1024 which I have been using on this machine for several years. I
had no problem with Fedora 1, not with Fedora 7 while running the 2.6.18
XEN kernel. As soon as I upgraded to 2.6.20 whammo, the problem began.

To make things confusing (at least for me) it sometimes the display
comes up fine. Other times it will flicker a few times then come up
fine. other times it sits there like stone and does nothing till I hit
the big switch.

Oh, one other thing. It also happens on cold boots too. This morning I
booted the machine cold and it happened. I had to reboot to the old
kernel.

Lastly, I can find nothing in the systems logs or anywhere else that
might indicate where the glitch is occurring. It's strange.

mylar




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