i915 ("Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900") troubles

Mike A. Harris mharris at www.linux.org.uk
Sun May 8 01:17:38 PDT 2005


steve wrote:
> I am (trying) to get X running on my recently purchased hp pavilion
> 4030us, which uses the "Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900" i915GM
> chipset. I was unable to get it to recognzie my card
> with X 6.8.2 so based on
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2005-April/007247.html I
> downloaded the  latest X.org snapshot
> (http://xorg.freedesktop.org/snapshots/xorg-x11-6.8.99.5.tar.bz2) and
> compiled and installed that, which succeeded.  However it still does
> not recognize
> my card (or my x config is wrong, or something).
> 
> kernel: "hardened" Gentoo 2.6.11
> (which means I am using PaX and dllloader and have compiled
> significant portions of X with "-nonow" flag to ensure lazy loading --
> but all of X seems to load correctly so I don't think this is causing
> issues)
> 
> loaded modules: http://mirrorshade.net/logs/lsmod.log
> xorg.conf: http://mirrorshade.net/logs/xorg.conf
> lspci output: http://mirrorshade.net/logs/lspci.log
> X -scanpci output: http://mirrorshade.net/logs/scanpci.log
> X output (X -config xorg.conf): http://mirrorshade.net/logs/x.log
> 
> I've fiddled a bit with the xorg.conf (changing with device to use in
> screen0, which modules are loaded, some device options,...) to no
> avail. Results are about the same regardless.
> 
> intel_agp, drm, and i915 are loaded.
> agpgart recognizes the card (AGP aperture is 256M @ 0xc0000000)
> 
> my video controller(s) (from lspci.log):
> ...
> 0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile
> 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)
> 0000:00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile
> 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)
> ...
> 
> This results in (from x.log):
> ...
> (II) I810: Driver for Intel Integrated Graphics Chipsets: i810, i810-dc100,
>        i810e, i815, i830M, 845G, 852GM/855GM, 865G, 915G, 915GM
> (II) Primary Device is: PCI 00:02:0
> (WW) I810: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0:2:1) found
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Your config file is broken.



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