Bugzilla – Bug 102939
grafical installer doesn't come up on siemens pc with i815 video chip
Last modified: 2005-09-12 14:24:54 UTC
Hi, the grafical installer doesn't come up on a siemens pc with i815 video chip. Disabling acpi doesn't help. So I booted the system and after the display goes to "no signal" I switched to console to save the y2logs and to get the hwinfo. I will attach these files to this report
Created attachment 45230 [details] This is the output of hwinfo --all
Created attachment 45231 [details] yast2 logfiles of the grafical installation
snwint, please, is it OK to use i810 driver for i815? Hardware Class: graphics card Model: "Siemens Nixdorf I815" Vendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation" Device: pci 0x1132 "I815" SubVendor: pci 0x110a "Siemens Nixdorf AG" SubDevice: pci 0x004c Revision: 0x02 Driver Info #0: XFree86 v4 Server Module: i810 Color Depths: 8, 16, 24 Extensions: Options: Driver Info #1: XFree86 v4 Server Module: i810 3D Support: yes Color Depths: 16
Yes but during installation, the vesa driver is (should be) used. I'd say X starts fine but the monitor can't display the mode.
The monitor is a ACER FP751 with a resolution 1280x1024 at 60Hz and 16 Bit. I've installed the beta1 with text console and configured the X-Server with sax2. Now I have a running system with X. But I think a DAU User should be able to make a grafical installation. I will attach the file /var/log/Xorg.0.log
Created attachment 45477 [details] Xorg.0.log from a running X Server ...
I've made some tests. The linuxrc shows me in the advance setting only vesa and text mode nothing more like 1024x786 800x600 ... When I use the text mode installation, the display sometime is very disordered, so I can't see, where I have to fill in the data for example hostname etc. Maybe the vesa stuff is broken on this card ?
Marcus: could you please have a look at it, please? What might be _the_problem_?
Hmm, I think the vesa driver on this machine is broken. Please do the following for getting better logs: (1) start the installation as you did in you first try. I assume you got the fallback textmode. (2) now switch to the console available in this environment Alt-F2 (3) the Xorg log file and the configuration used should be saved now /etc/X11/xorg.conf /var/log/Xorg*.log Thanks
Still no feedback?
Matthias, please also try on our i815 machine. Thanks.
Created attachment 49574 [details] /etc/xorg.conf
Created attachment 49576 [details] /var/log/Xorg.0.log
Hi, sorry, I was on vacation till yesterday. I've added the needed files.
Thanks. I couldn't find anything wrong in the config and logfile. Matthias will check.
Works for me with rc1. I'll try the startup of the beta1 installation later.
Also works with beta1 out-of-the-box on my machine. Same PCI id, but off course different subvendor id. I don't know what else to test, Stefan?
Nothing. Let's close it as WORKSFORME.
I've tested it with RC1. It doesn't work, I get a black screen (and then a message from monitor "Kein Signal").
Dieter, reopening won't help. We can't reproduce this problem. :-(