Mike A. Harris wrote:
fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I installed Fedora Core 3, but seem to be having lots of issues with
video
display and lockups. I'm currently using a Dell Inspiron 2500 laptop,
which
has the Intel 810 video chipset.
I first installed FC3 with SELinux Active and then installed a second
istalled a
second time with SELinux Disabled. I am working with a fresh install
on both
cases.
I'm unable to track down the source of the problem, has anyone seen this?
The i810 driver in X.Org X11 6.8.x is broken on i810 and i815 video
hardware. The exact cause of the problem is not yet known. It could
be a bug in the i810 video driver, the core X server code, or in the
kernel side of the driver (DRM).
Someone using a nvidia driver reported a refresh problem that is similar
to the problem that those with the 810/815 video hardware have really
noticed. Is it possible that there is another xorg-x11 component causing
the refresh error, other than the driver?
The bug has been filed in Red Hat bugzilla already, and is also filed
in X.Org bugzilla and officially being tracked there. Anyone
experiencing problems with i810 or i815 video on Fedora Core 3
can add themselves to the CC of the upstream bug report if they
would like to track the issue and any progress being made on it
by upstream X.Org developers/maintainers. The upstream bug report
is locate at:
http://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1817
Thanks! I'll be tracking the bug and hopefully not commenting too much
on the issue there.
Red Hat is tracking the issue in X.Org bugzilla above, and once a patch
is available that fixes this issue, we will review it for consideration
for any future FC3 X.Org update releases. In the mean time, any users
who may be experiencing this issue can temporarily work around the
issue by editing their /etc/X11/xorg.conf by hand, and adding the
following line to the driver section:
Option "noaccel"
This is what works for me, but with "NoAccel". Are these options case
sesitive?
This will disable 2D acceleration in the driver, which should result in
slower but working video. Alternatively you can try using the "vesa"
driver, but it is also unaccelerated and will likely be even slower.
For my particular 815 video, vesa causes diagonal lines across the
display and is unusable as a driver selection.
Once X.Org has tracked down the cause of the issue and a patch is made
available that fixes it, we will review it for future updates as
mentioned above.
Looking around on the server that the belo link refers to, I noticed an
i915 driver that is listed. Would stagnating the i810 driver at a level
that worked for the 810/815 and adding a new class of drivers be better
for keeping the old video hardware working and not hinder the newer
similar, but different enough to cause problems drivers evolving? It
seems that the first 810 /815 breakage was due to improvements for the
830 video hardware. I know that the 865G does not randomly crash any
longer because of improvements made to the i810 driver that make these
later video harware more reliable.
Thanks! This issue concerns me, since one video type was made more
reliable and the other was made less functional and both use the same
driver. One is bound to be killed by revisions to make the other
videocard work more reliably.
Jim
Hope this helps.