xf86-video-intel modesetting crash

[Stefan Dirsch]

On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 05:17:31PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 04:22:39PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > So I got this nifty little Mac Mini, as I keep breaking Linus's machine,
> > so I wanted to test with it.  But I can't get X to work properly on it.
> > 
> > I'm running the modesetting branch of the xf86-video-intel driver the
> > 53c28b3980d2682de830e8f86553ccad71527ac1 commit, and I get the following
> > error when trying to start up:
> > 
> > (==) I810(0): Default visual is TrueColor
> > (II) Loading sub module "int10"
> > (II) LoadModule: "int10"
> > (II) Reloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libint10.so
> > (II) I810(0): initializing int10
> > (WW) I810(0): Bad V_BIOS checksum
> > (II) I810(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000
> > (EE) I810(0): unknown reason for exception
> > (II) I810(0): EAX=0x00004f00, EBX=0x00000000, ECX=0x00000000,
> > EDX=0x00000000
> > (II) I810(0): ESP=0x00000ffa, EBP=0x00000000, ESI=0x00000000,
> > EDI=0x00002000
> > (II) I810(0): CS=0x7d8e, SS=0x0100, DS=0x0040, ES=0x0000, FS=0x0000,
> > GS=0x0000
> > (II) I810(0): EIP=0x0000ffff, EFLAGS=0x00033282
> > (II) stack at 0x00001ffa:
> >  00 06 00 00 00 32
> > (II) I810(0): code at 0x0008d8df:
> >  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> >  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> > (EE) I810(0): cannot continue
> > (II) I810(0): VESA BIOS not detected
> > (EE) I810(0): VBE initialization failed.
> > 
> > I can provide more of the log (earlier parts) if anyone thinks it will
> > help out anything.
> > 
> > Any thoughts?
> 
> Hm, upgrading to a newer kernel fixes this issue, 

I think it's the reboot and not the kernel update, which fixes this
issue. At least this was my experience I had with a Mac Mini some days
ago.

> but now the driver
> can't find any modes for the 1680x1050 setting of the monitor.  The
> driver does see that the monitor can support that, but there is no mode
> for it.

I never tried the modesetting branch of the i810 driver, but I'm
assuming that you still need to provide a modeline for such a mode. Is
it specified in your xorg.conf and accepted by the server/driver?

Best regards,
Stefan

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