Bug 148296 - no driver works with my laptop
Summary: no driver works with my laptop
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: SUSE Linux 10.1
Classification: openSUSE
Component: X.Org (show other bugs)
Version: Beta 3
Hardware: Other Other
: P5 - None : Normal (vote)
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Assignee: Stefan Dirsch
QA Contact: Stefan Dirsch
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Reported: 2006-02-05 21:27 UTC by Jon Nelson
Modified: 2006-02-19 17:42 UTC (History)
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Description Jon Nelson 2006-02-05 21:27:45 UTC 
This is probably related to 148292, but it feels like a different bug.

I tried changing the driver from 'nv' to 'vesa' and restarting kdm.
This is what I get in /var/log/Xorg.0.log:

II) Reloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libint10.so
(II) VESA(0): initializing int10
(II) VESA(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000
(II) VESA(0): VESA BIOS detected
(II) VESA(0): VESA VBE Version 3.0
(II) VESA(0): VESA VBE Total Mem: 16384 kB
(II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM: NVidia
(II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM Software Rev: 3.17
(II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM Vendor: NVidia Corporation
(II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM Product: NV11 Board
(II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM Product Rev: Chip Rev B2
(==) VESA(0): Write-combining range (0xf0000000,0x1000000)
(II) VESA(0): virtual address = 0xb6933000,
        physical address = 0xf0000000, size = 16777216

and that's it. No X.

However, while the machine itself appears totally frozen, I *can* ssh into it.
Since neither the vesa driver nor the nv driver appear to work, at this point I feel like I'm out of luck.
Comment 1 Jon Nelson 2006-02-05 21:43:15 UTC 
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.
Comment 2 Stefan Dirsch 2006-02-06 04:40:00 UTC 
This option is never set. Did you enable it manually. Please attach /etc/X11/xorg.conf, SaX2 has written before you edited it.
Comment 3 Jon Nelson 2006-02-07 02:31:55 UTC 
I certainly never added that option by hand. In fact, the first time I ever edited was to comment out that option.

However, just to be sure, I did a second ground-up reinstall.
This time X wouldn't start at all, the reason being it has an entry 'ChangeMe' in what looks like a dummy xorg.conf file. sax2 /still/ tries to use the NV driver which does not work properly. 

I'll try to get more information when I can.
Comment 4 Jon Nelson 2006-02-19 17:10:07 UTC 
I'll note that 10.1b4 seems to have fixed this, although this time I did not do a VNC install.  If I encounter this again I'll be sure to update this bug.
Comment 5 Stefan Dirsch 2006-02-19 17:42:12 UTC 
Ok. Reopen if you encounter this again.