Fwd: [Bug 1389904] Re: With the recent update to xserver-xorg-video-intel, system boots to a black screen

[Nio Wiklund]

Hi wxl
[see inline replies]
Best regards/Nio

Den 2014-11-07 20:54, Walter Lapchynski skrev:
>>>> Hi everybody with old intel graphics,
>>>> Please check if it affects you too, and in that case report that it
>>>> affects you too.
>> I made a fresh install into an old IBM Thinkcentre 8187-73G with Intel
> 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller.
>> The computer works and seems not affected by this bug (with a clean up
> to date Lubuntu 14.04).
> 
> What about with 14.10?

I can check that tomorrow - I chose 14.04.1 because that is the version
where Aere found the bug.

> BTW you gave output from lshw which does not include the device IDs so
> it's a little ambiguous.

In the bug report at Launchpad I attached the whole output file
generated by lshw.

 This is why I use lspci. For example, I have:
> 
> $ lspci -vvnn| grep -i "vga controller" -A 11 
-----
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 82865G
Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2572] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA
controller])
	Subsystem: IBM Device [1014:0285]
	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
	Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort-
<MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx+
	Latency: 0
	Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
	Region 0: Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
	Region 1: Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
[size=512K]00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation
82865G Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2572] (rev 02) (prog-if 00
[VGA controller])
	Subsystem: IBM Device [1014:0285]
	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
	Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort-
<MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx+
	Latency: 0
	Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
	Region 0: Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
	Region 1: Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
	Region 2: I/O ports at 1800 [size=8]
	Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: i915

	Region 2: I/O ports at 1800 [size=8]
	Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: i915
-----
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core
> processor Graphics Controller [8086:0156] (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA
> controller])
> 
>         Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:3977]
> 
>         Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
> ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
> 
>         Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-
> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
> 
>         Latency: 0
> 
>         Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 43
> 
>         Region 0: Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
> 
>         Region 2: Memory at b0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
> 
>         Region 4: I/O ports at 3000 [size=64]
> 
>         Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
> 
>         Capabilities: <access denied>
> 
>         Kernel driver in use: i915
> 
> In this case 8086 is Intel Coporation. The 0156 is a 3rd Gen Core
> processor Graphics Controller or a Ivy Bridge Graphics Controller.
> 
> The 03 refers to a Display controller and the 00 after it VGA compatible
> controller, by the way. So that's another something you can grep against.
> 
> You can look all these things up at http://pciids.sourceforge.net
> 
> @wxl
> Lubuntu Release Manager, Head of QA
> Ubuntu PPC Point of Contact
> Ubuntu Oregon Team Leader
>