[Bug 554569] [NEW] [lucid] Blank screen with KMS on Thinkpad X201 with Arrandale (i915)

Sat Apr 3 12:16:24 UTC 2010

Public bug reported:

Hi all,
On my new Thinkpad X201 with Core i5 and integrated Arrandale graphics with lucid i get a blank screen (no backlight) as soon as the i915 kicks in during boottime. Booting continues, i can hear the loginsound, but the display stays dark. External screen shows a picture, although with wrong resolution. Booting with the i915.modeset=0 results in working graphics, but only X with vesa. I tried several kernel-versions, including karmic livecd and the newest daily build from the kernel mainline ppa, both 2.6.33 and 2.6.34, all to no avail. The only kernel that works is from this ppa (https://launchpad.net/~csurbhi/+archive/karmic-stable) from bug #515246, but I couldn't isolate why. This could be a duplicate of that bug, but it has been marked fixed, but still remains with me.
The problem seems to be that the i915 cannot initialize the internal display properly. Following snip from syslog:

=== SNIP ===
Apr  2 17:22:46 serafina kernel: [   16.851787] [drm:intel_crtc_mode_set] *ERROR* Couldn't find PLL settings for mode!
Apr  2 17:22:46 serafina kernel: [   16.851843] [drm:drm_crtc_helper_set_config] *ERROR* failed to set mode on crtc ffff88011faa2000
Apr  2 17:22:46 serafina kernel: [   16.851898] [drm:drm_fb_helper_restore] *ERROR* Failed to restore crtc configuration
Apr  2 17:22:46 serafina kernel: [   16.854711] [drm:intel_crtc_mode_set] *ERROR* Couldn't find PLL settings for mode!
Apr  2 17:22:46 serafina kernel: [   16.854756] [drm:drm_crtc_helper_set_config] *ERROR* failed to set mode on crtc ffff88011faa2000
Apr  2 17:22:46 serafina kernel: [   16.854805] [drm:drm_fb_helper_restore] *ERROR* Failed to restore crtc configuration
Apr  2 17:22:46 serafina kernel: [   17.027367] iwlagn 0000:02:00.0: loaded firmware version 9.176.4.1
Apr  2 17:22:46 serafina kernel: [   17.112490] [drm:intel_crtc_mode_set] *ERROR* Couldn't find PLL settings for mode!
Apr  2 17:22:46 serafina kernel: [   17.112542] [drm:drm_crtc_helper_set_config] *ERROR* failed to set mode on crtc ffff88011faa2000
Apr  2 17:22:46 serafina bluetoothd[911]: Bluetooth daemon 4.60
Apr  2 17:22:46 serafina kernel: [   17.130898] [drm:intel_crtc_mode_set] *ERROR* Couldn't find PLL settings for mode!
Apr  2 17:22:46 serafina kernel: [   17.130903] [drm:drm_crtc_helper_set_config] *ERROR* failed to set mode on crtc ffff88011faa2000
Apr  2 17:22:46 serafina kernel: [   17.135584] [drm:intel_crtc_mode_set] *ERROR* Couldn't find PLL settings for mode!
Apr  2 17:22:46 serafina kernel: [   17.135591] [drm:drm_crtc_helper_set_config] *ERROR* failed to set mode on crtc ffff88011faa2000
Apr  2 17:22:46 serafina bluetoothd[1184]: Starting SDP server
Apr  2 17:22:46 serafina kernel: [   17.150923] [drm:intel_crtc_mode_set] *ERROR* Couldn't find PLL settings for mode!
Apr  2 17:22:46 serafina kernel: [   17.150929] [drm:drm_crtc_helper_set_config] *ERROR* failed to set mode on crtc ffff88011faa2000
Apr  2 17:22:46 serafina kernel: [   17.156446] [drm:intel_crtc_mode_set] *ERROR* Couldn't find PLL settings for mode!
Apr  2 17:22:46 serafina kernel: [   17.156451] [drm:drm_crtc_helper_set_config] *ERROR* failed to set mode on crtc ffff88011faa2000
Apr  2 17:22:46 serafina kernel: [   17.170953] [drm:intel_crtc_mode_set] *ERROR* Couldn't find PLL settings for mode!
Apr  2 17:22:46 serafina kernel: [   17.170959] [drm:drm_crtc_helper_set_config] *ERROR* failed to set mode on crtc ffff88011faa2000
Apr  2 17:22:46 serafina kernel: [   17.175573] [drm:intel_crtc_mode_set] *ERROR* Couldn't find PLL settings for mode!
Apr  2 17:22:46 serafina kernel: [   17.175579] [drm:drm_crtc_helper_set_config] *ERROR* failed to set mode on crtc ffff88011faa2000
Apr  2 17:22:46 serafina kernel: [   17.192107] [drm:intel_crtc_mode_set] *ERROR* Couldn't find PLL settings for mode!
Apr  2 17:22:46 serafina kernel: [   17.192113] [drm:drm_crtc_helper_set_config] *ERROR* failed to set mode on crtc ffff88011faa2000
Apr  2 17:22:46 serafina kernel: [   17.196464] [drm:intel_crtc_mode_set] *ERROR* Couldn't find PLL settings for mode!
Apr  2 17:22:46 serafina kernel: [   17.196469] [drm:drm_crtc_helper_set_config] *ERROR* failed to set mode on crtc ffff88011faa2000
Apr  2 17:22:46 serafina kernel: [   17.209264] [drm:intel_crtc_mode_set] *ERROR* Couldn't find PLL settings for mode!
Apr  2 17:22:46 serafina kernel: [   17.209269] [drm:drm_crtc_helper_set_config] *ERROR* failed to set mode on crtc ffff88011faa2000
Apr  2 17:22:46 serafina kernel: [   17.213608] [drm:intel_crtc_mode_set] *ERROR* Couldn't find PLL settings for mode!
Apr  2 17:22:46 serafina kernel: [   17.213613] [drm:drm_crtc_helper_set_config] *ERROR* failed to set mode on crtc ffff88011faa2000
Apr  2 17:22:46 serafina kernel: [   17.226658] [drm:intel_crtc_mode_set] *ERROR* Couldn't find PLL settings for mode!
Apr  2 17:22:46 serafina kernel: [   17.226663] [drm:drm_crtc_helper_set_config] *ERROR* failed to set mode on crtc ffff88011faa2000
Apr  2 17:22:46 serafina kernel: [   17.231147] [drm:intel_crtc_mode_set] *ERROR* Couldn't find PLL settings for mode!
Apr  2 17:22:46 serafina kernel: [   17.231152] [drm:drm_crtc_helper_set_config] *ERROR* failed to set mode on crtc ffff88011faa2000
=== SNIP ===

Eager to help here, but I'm out of options. Please state if you need
more info from me, thx.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: linux-image-2.6.32-19-generic 2.6.32-19.28
Regression: No
Reproducible: Yes
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-14.22+lid945gm-generic
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-14-generic x86_64
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.21.
Architecture: amd64
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: HDA Generic [HDA Generic]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0:  hmu        1537 F.... pulseaudio
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xf2520000 irq 17'
   Mixer name	: 'Intel G45 DEVIBX'
   Components	: 'HDA:14f15069,17aa2155,00100302 HDA:80862804,17aa21b5,00100000'
   Controls      : 10
   Simple ctrls  : 5
Date: Sat Apr  3 14:01:53 2010
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=a3aa395d-ec8f-4843-9f13-6fa5262ad28d
InstallationMedia: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/installer/media-info'
MachineType: LENOVO 3626W15
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-14-generic root=UUID=1de2f719-73e0-41a7-bffb-2173f46dbe05 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=de_DE.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
RelatedPackageVersions: linux-firmware 1.33
SourcePackage: linux
dmi.bios.date: 01/26/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: 6QET35WW (1.05 )
dmi.board.name: 3626W15
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr6QET35WW(1.05):bd01/26/2010:svnLENOVO:pn3626W15:pvrThinkPadX201:rvnLENOVO:rn3626W15:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 3626W15
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad X201
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO

** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Tags: amd64 apport-bug graphics lucid needs-upstream-testing

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[lucid] Blank screen with KMS on Thinkpad X201 with Arrandale (i915)
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