Unsharp and "too few" colours output on the internal display/Crashes (Dell Latitude D830)

[Josh Triplett]

Christian Leber wrote:
> i have a Dell Latitude D830 with Intel X3100 gfx and WUXGA resolution.
> 
> I'm running ubuntu 7.04 with the 2.0.0-2 driver (took it from ubuntu
> 7.10) despite that beryl crashes X... that is only a side issue, i have
> something more odd. (Other crashes too)
> 
> The output on the internal screen is unsharp and colour gradients have
> "steps" so the 24 bit display looks like 16 bit or less.
> When i connect a external monitor it's sharp and the colours are right.
> (at this point i still hoped the laptop is just crap)
> 
> I still have this Windows Vista on the laptop and it correctly displays
> the colours and the output is sharp.
> 
> So the xorg intel driver does something wrong.
> 
> It was suggested to try out the driver from git, but it doesn't work, i
> get:
> (==) intel(0): Silken mouse enabled
> (II) intel(0): Initializing HW Cursor
> 
> Backtrace:
> 0: /usr/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x81) [0x80c7f11]
> 1: [0xffffe420]
> 2: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//intel_drv.so(I830CursorInit+0x35)
> [0xb7b4e495]
> 3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//intel_drv.so [0xb7b59177]
> 4: /usr/bin/X(AddScreen+0x1ee) [0x8075d9e]
> 5: /usr/bin/X(InitOutput+0x21e) [0x80a744e]
> 6: /usr/bin/X(main+0x27b) [0x807654b]
> 7: /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xdc) [0xb7d2febc]
> 8: /usr/bin/X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0x1e5) [0x8075a81]
> 
> Fatal server error:
> Caught signal 11.  Server aborting
> 
> 
> Is there a working good tag in the git?
> 
> Is the problem known?

You should report this as a bug at http://bugs.freedesktop.org , so it does
not get lost.  Both the segfault and the incorrect display configuration sound
like bugs in the intel driver.

- Josh Triplett


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