Problem with xorg and intel g43

[Paul Menzel]

Dear Fabio,


sorry for the late reply.

Am Donnerstag, den 05.03.2009, 11:47 +0100 schrieb Fabio:
> >> If you read the old thread, you will discover that I got a working
> >> modeline using powerstrip under windows. I didn't know about
> >> cvt -v -r 1680 1050
> >> which I discovered reading your link: I tried it and it gives me a
> >> different modeline with respect to the one I found. Namely, mine is
> >> Modeline "1680x1050" 147.600 1680 1784 1968 2256 1050 1051 1054
> 1087 -hsync +vsync
> >> whereas cvt gives
> >> Modeline "1680x1050R"  119.00  1680 1728 1760 1840  1050 1053 1059
> 1080 +hsync -vsync
> >> I will give it a try: maybe this will fix the crash...!
> >
> > I doubt that it will help with the crash, because the graphics card
> > should not know if the monitor cannot display the image. But who
> knows.
> 
> I made some tests and the result is that, at least, it looks more
> stable, 
> which is an improvement... ;-)
> To be sure, I need more time since the crash I experience is not 
> deterministic: sometime it happens at boot time, just when gdm
> starts, 
> sometimes it happens when changing user, sometime it doesn't happen
> at 
> all!
> 
> 
> > Anyway, if it does not work, you should definitely file a bug
> report.
> > Only then my problem was dealt with by the intel engineer. And I do
> not
> > know if such problems need to be send to a specific intel list to
> get
> > help.
> 
> I will think about that, but it is diffucult to describe it since the 
> resolution works fine, once manually defined, whereas the crashes, as
> I 
> said, are quite randoms.

Maybe the developers will know more option and tools to be useful for
debugging. Did you enable the debug option of the intel driver?

> There is also another issue: as I wrote in a previous mail, the intel 
> device is not autorecognized by knoppix. This fact is quite strange.
> May I ask you which device is yours?

It is an ASUS Eee PC 701 4G [1].

> Mine is a G43, on integrate on the mother board  Asus P5QL-EM.
> In case, can you try to boot knoppix? If you also experience the same 
> problem, maybe this also could be signaled as a bug.

Sorry, I do not have an external CD/DVD drive, so I cannot test.


Thanks,

Paul


[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asus_Eee_PC
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