Bugzilla – Bug 148292
X display completely broken
Last modified: 2006-02-13 10:50:21 UTC
I've got a Dell Inspiron 2650 laptop. I've used SUSE on it since 9.0 and nary a problem. Today I downloaded and installed 10.1 Beta3 and did a ground-up reinstall (going to far as to zero the first couple meg of the hard disk /before/ installing). After installation, the X display came up and was completely broken. The chipset is an NVidia Geforce2 'Go', I think. I had to run sax2 -r in runlevel 3 but that didn't work either. I should note that the /installation/ went fine. This seems like a pretty serious bug.
I also tried the vesa driver with this: --vesa 800x600@60 -m 0:vesa which actually froze the machine hard.
I think i figured it out. Comment this out and it works: #Option "CrtcNumber" "0"
Why is that option set? I can't be sure but this likely won't work well for laptops.
Please attach `hwinfo --gfx' as well as the yast logfiles in /var/log/YaST2.
linux:/etc/X11 # hwinfo --gfx 19: PCI(AGP) 100.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA) [Created at pci.277] UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_10de_112 Unique ID: VCu0.jrVv9fn39cC Parent ID: vSkL.oADI+QhFKj4 SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0 SysFS BusID: 0000:01:00.0 Hardware Class: graphics card Model: "Dell GeForce2 Go" Vendor: pci 0x10de "nVidia Corporation" Device: pci 0x0112 "GeForce2 Go" SubVendor: pci 0x1028 "Dell" SubDevice: pci 0x00f3 Revision: 0xb2 Memory Range: 0xe0000000-0xe0ffffff (rw,non-prefetchable) Memory Range: 0xf0000000-0xf7ffffff (rw,prefetchable) Memory Range: 0xe1000000-0xe100ffff (ro,prefetchable,disabled) IRQ: 10 (458 events) I/O Ports: 0x3c0-0x3df (rw) Module Alias: "pci:v000010DEd00000112sv00001028sd000000F3bc03sc00i00" Driver Info #0: XFree86 v4 Server Module: nv XF86Config Entry: #Option "CrtcNumber" "0" Driver Info #1: XFree86 v4 Server Module: nvidia 3D Support: yes Color Depths: 16 Extensions: Options: XF86Config Entry: #Option "CrtcNumber" "0" Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Attached to: #10 (PCI bridge) Primary display adapter: #19 linux:/etc/X11 # I'm doing a /complete/ reinstall (zero first couple meg of /dev/hda, redo install) and will provide more details when I can. I've done 4 complete reinstalls so far and all of them have had some variation on this problem (same machine).
Stefan: #Option "CrtcNumber" "0" Why is this option needed? Could we solve this by just removing it?
It's commented out ("#"), so it simply shouldn't matter, but I was able to reproduce. Looks like SaX2 omits the "#" character. :-(
OK, I should've been a bit clearer - *I* commented out the Option. With the option commented out, it works. The config arrived with that option uncommented. I did a ground-up reinstall again last night and had the same problem (reinstall #3 or #4, I forget. ;-)
fixed
FYI: too late for beta4
*** Bug 150342 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***