Bug 195623

Summary:	Returning to GUI via <ctrl><alt><F7> invalid video frequency on Intel integrated graphics
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1	Reporter:	Michael McCarthy <sysop>
Component:	X.Org	Assignee:	Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	eich, josephlord, suse-beta
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	SuSE Linux 10.1
Whiteboard:
Found By:	Customer	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	Logs and conf file as requested xorg.conf Xorg.0.log

Description Michael McCarthy 2006-07-28 13:33:41 UTC

I have three systems using Intel integrated video controllers (i810 driver) that leave the GUI unusable if I do <CTRL><ALT><F1> and try to return via <CTRL><ALT><F7>.  The monitor reports an invalid frequency.  Doing an "init 3" then "init 5" from the console will restore the GUI login, but any running applications are lost.

Hardware:
(2) Dell Optiplex GX260 with Intel i845 chipset.
(1) MSI motherboard with 865G chipset

Common to all is the Intel i810 video driver.  All systems are up to date with latest patches as of 7/28/06.

Comment 1 Stefan Dirsch 2006-07-28 13:37:51 UTC

Could you attach /etc/X11/xorg.conf and /var/log/Xorg.0.log?

Comment 2 Michael McCarthy 2006-07-28 13:57:45 UTC

Created attachment 94756 [details]
Logs and conf file as requested

Comment 3 Stefan Dirsch 2006-07-28 14:20:40 UTC

Hmm, could you restest with "i810xorg71" driver. Just replace 
' Driver "i810" ' in /etc/X11/xorg.conf with ' Driver "i810xorg71" '. Does this help?

Comment 4 Michael McCarthy 2006-07-28 14:38:36 UTC

Nope.  Same problem.

Comment 5 Stefan Dirsch 2006-08-02 00:03:20 UTC

Created attachment 94968 [details]
xorg.conf

Comment 6 Stefan Dirsch 2006-08-02 00:03:57 UTC

Created attachment 94969 [details]
Xorg.0.log

Comment 7 Stefan Dirsch 2006-08-02 00:08:32 UTC

Could you please test with latest X.Org and i810 driver again with SUSE 10.2 Alpha3?

Comment 8 Michael McCarthy 2006-08-02 12:08:16 UTC

I'm not sure if that is possible.  I would have to take one of my Dell boxes down and load it on another hard drive since these are all being used as production systems now.  My alpha/beta system is Nvidia.  Is there an easy way to load just X.Org and driver without having to load Alpha3?

Comment 9 Stefan Dirsch 2006-08-02 12:22:27 UTC

It would be possbile by using the X.Org 7 RPMs for SUSE 10.1 from our openSUSE buildservice, but I woudn't recommend this on a production system. If you still consider it, here is the URL for installation. 

http://software.opensuse.org/download/xorg7/Java_Sun-Java-1.5_SUSE_Linux_10.1/

I think you can add it as additional installation source to YaST and select all the packages from it.

Comment 10 Stefan Dirsch 2006-08-05 08:02:07 UTC

Since we don't have a Intel 845 available for testing to reproduce this issue and you cannot test a newer driver for now I'm setting this one to LATER.

Comment 11 Michael McCarthy 2006-08-07 11:56:46 UTC

It appears that the problem is flagged in the x.org bugzilla database and appears across multiple distros.  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5795.  I'll track this as well as try some testing in the near future as one of my i845 systems will come available for testing soon.  If I find anything of significance, I'll reopen the bug.

Comment 12 Stefan Dirsch 2006-08-07 12:07:25 UTC

Thanks. I've added myself to this X.Org bugreport as well.

Comment 13 Stefan Dirsch 2006-10-08 12:22:11 UTC

From: Joseph Lord <joseph@lordweb.net>
To: sndirsch@novell.com
Subject: Can you reopen Bug 195623 please? Now fixed in X.org - bug 5795
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 00:43:37 +0100

Hi,

I've noticed that this issue has now been fixed in X.org, and I was hoping
that you could reopen it.  It is currently set to later but it would be
great if you could offer the fix as an update for Suse 10.1.

The bug report in the project bug database.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5795

Thanks,

Joseph Lord

Comment 14 Stefan Dirsch 2006-10-10 10:59:01 UTC

Well, since I couldn't find a patch in the X.Org bugreport to fix this issue also for older driver releases I decided to close this one as fixed for the next SUSE release.