FC5 - Intel 945GM not working

[Marcel Groner]

hello

I've got a samsung q35 (Centrino Duo) with the following graphics chipset:

[root@pmobilemg ~]# dmesg | grep agp
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected an Intel 945GM Chipset.
agpgart: Detected 7932K stolen memory.
agpgart: AGP aperture is 256M @ 0xc0000000

I installed the latest Fedora Core 5 and upgraded the kernel yesterday:

Linux pmobilemg.puzzle.itc 2.6.16-1.2096_FC5smp #1 SMP Wed Apr 19 
05:32:58 EDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

vesa driver is working, if I change to i810 I get the following error:

X Window System Version 7.0.0
Release Date: 21 December 2005
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.0
Build Operating System:Linux 2.6.9-22.18.bz155725.ELsmp i686Red Hat, Inc.
..
..
(II) Module mouse: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
         compiled for 7.0.0, module version = 1.0.4
         Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
         ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 0.5
(II) I810: Driver for Intel Integrated Graphics Chipsets: i810, i810-dc100,
         i810e, i815, i830M, 845G, 852GM/855GM, 865G, 915G, E7221 (i915),
         915GM, 945G
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 00:02:0
(--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device
(WW) I810: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0:2:1) found
(EE) No devices detected.

Fatal server error:
no screens found

does anyone know how to fix that?

thanks
marcel groner

[David Timms]

Marcel Groner wrote:
>  hello
>  
>  I've got a samsung q35 (Centrino Duo) with the following graphics chipset: 
I
guess that may be brand spanking new ...

>  I installed the latest Fedora Core 5 and upgraded the kernel
> yesterday: 
Did you update xorg stuff as well ?
Or all updates ?

>  (II) I810: Driver for Intel Integrated Graphics Chipsets: i810,
> i810-dc100,
>          i810e, i815, i830M, 845G, 852GM/855GM, 865G, 915G, E7221 (i915),
>          915GM, 945G
>  (II) Primary Device is: PCI 00:02:0
>  (--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device
>  (WW) I810: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0:2:1) found
>  (EE) No devices detected.
>  
>  Fatal server error:
>  no screens found
>  
>  does anyone know how to fix that? 
Looking at:
http://wiki.x.org/wiki/FAQErrorMessages section 1.7.1, 
Either the driver set is not the correct driver or it is the best fit 
but not yet supported.
I see the i810 mentions 945G but not 945GM. They might be close enough 
to be able to hack the detection into thinking you have a 945 ?

Is the graphics chip in pci-ids.txt:
# lspci -v -s 00:02.1
What is the pci-id ?
# lspci -n -s 00:02.1

DaveT.

[Mikkel]

David Timms wrote:
>  Marcel Groner wrote:
> > hello
> >
> > I've got a samsung q35 (Centrino Duo) with the following graphics
> > chipset:
>  I guess that may be brand spanking new ...
>  
> > I installed the latest Fedora Core 5 and upgraded the kernel yesterday:
>  Did you update xorg stuff as well ?
>  Or all updates ?
>  
> > (II) I810: Driver for Intel Integrated Graphics Chipsets: i810,
> > i810-dc100,
> >         i810e, i815, i830M, 845G, 852GM/855GM, 865G, 915G, E7221 (i915),
> >         915GM, 945G
> > (II) Primary Device is: PCI 00:02:0
> > (--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device
> > (WW) I810: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0:2:1)
> > found
> > (EE) No devices detected.
> >
> > Fatal server error:
> > no screens found
> >
> > does anyone know how to fix that?
>  Looking at: http://wiki.x.org/wiki/FAQErrorMessages section 1.7.1,
>  Either the driver set is not the correct driver or it is the best fit
>  but not yet supported.
>  I see the i810 mentions 945G but not 945GM. They might be close enough
>  to be able to hack the detection into thinking you have a 945 ?
>  
>  Is the graphics chip in pci-ids.txt:
>  # lspci -v -s 00:02.1
>  What is the pci-id ?
>  # lspci -n -s 00:02.1
>  
>  DaveT.
>   
Coming into this late, but this may help. What I did on my Toshiba
laptop to make it work was to get i915-20060403-linux.i386.tar.bz2
from http://dri.freedesktop.org/snapshots/. Make sure you only
install that file, and not the common-20060403-linux.i386.tar.bz2
file, or you will break things. (I ended up with a blank screen and
had to get rid of the files from
common-20060403-linux.i386.tar.bz2.) You then pick the i810 driver.
It gives you much better video then using the VESA driver. You are
installing a replacement i810 and an i915 module.

Now if I can just get DMA working on the DVD drive, life will be
good. (hdparm returns an error when I try and set it.)

Mikkel
-- 

  Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!

[Jim Cornette]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>  David Timms wrote:
> > Marcel Groner wrote:
> >> hello
> >>
> >> I've got a samsung q35 (Centrino Duo) with the following graphics
> >> chipset:
> > I guess that may be brand spanking new ...
> >
> >> I installed the latest Fedora Core 5 and upgraded the kernel yesterday:
> > Did you update xorg stuff as well ?
> > Or all updates ?
> >
> >> (II) I810: Driver for Intel Integrated Graphics Chipsets: i810,
> >> i810-dc100,
> >>         i810e, i815, i830M, 845G, 852GM/855GM, 865G, 915G, E7221 (i915),
> >>         915GM, 945G
> >> (II) Primary Device is: PCI 00:02:0
> >> (--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device
> >> (WW) I810: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0:2:1)
> >> found
> >> (EE) No devices detected.
> >>
> >> Fatal server error:
> >> no screens found
> >>
> >> does anyone know how to fix that?
> > Looking at: http://wiki.x.org/wiki/FAQErrorMessages section 1.7.1,
> > Either the driver set is not the correct driver or it is the best fit
> > but not yet supported.
> > I see the i810 mentions 945G but not 945GM. They might be close enough
> > to be able to hack the detection into thinking you have a 945 ?
> >
> > Is the graphics chip in pci-ids.txt:
> > # lspci -v -s 00:02.1
> > What is the pci-id ?
> > # lspci -n -s 00:02.1
> >
> > DaveT.
> >
>  Coming into this late, but this may help. What I did on my Toshiba
>  laptop to make it work was to get i915-20060403-linux.i386.tar.bz2
>  from http://dri.freedesktop.org/snapshots/. Make sure you only
>  install that file, and not the common-20060403-linux.i386.tar.bz2
>  file, or you will break things. (I ended up with a blank screen and
>  had to get rid of the files from
>  common-20060403-linux.i386.tar.bz2.) You then pick the i810 driver.
>  It gives you much better video then using the VESA driver. You are
>  installing a replacement i810 and an i915 module.
>  
>  Now if I can just get DMA working on the DVD drive, life will be
>  good. (hdparm returns an error when I try and set it.)
>  
>  Mikkel 
What snapshot would be better to use for the 865G video? Would the i810 
or the i915 snapshot be more appropriate?

Some earlier poster reported a blank screen with the stock install of 
xorg-x11 that Fedora maintains. I have no problem with my installation 
using the stock version.

Anyway, if replacing the stock with the snapshots works, bugs should be 
files in bugzilla for Fedora and the xorg i810 driver version.

I had to replace Fedora compiled versions with snapshots before. It is 
possible but needs repeated when the xorg-x11 driver for the i810 gets 
replaced.

Agreed that the difference between the vesa driver and the i810 are 
worth getting the i810 working either from using the snapshot or not.

When I had problems with the driver the i810_drv.so was all I replaced. 
The location of the driver is different for FC5.
locate i810_drv
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/i810_drv.so

Does replacing the dri show any improvements? I am wondering because the 
blank screen problem for Intel video cards was with xorg component with 
my problem which was not a blank screen.
/usr/lib/dri/i915_dri.so
/usr/lib/dri/i810_dri.so


More curious and also hope to lead to getting the "one size fits all" 
Intel driver fixed for the many Intel video cards it supports. (And lead 
the other user with he blank screen to a solution.

Jim


-- 
Nondeterminism means never having to say you are wrong.

[Mikkel]

Jim Cornette wrote:
> > Coming into this late, but this may help. What I did on my
> Toshiba
> > laptop to make it work was to get i915-20060403-linux.i386.tar.bz2
> > from http://dri.freedesktop.org/snapshots/. Make sure you only
> > install that file, and not the common-20060403-linux.i386.tar.bz2
> > file, or you will break things. (I ended up with a blank screen and
> > had to get rid of the files from
> > common-20060403-linux.i386.tar.bz2.) You then pick the i810 driver.
> > It gives you much better video then using the VESA driver. You are
> > installing a replacement i810 and an i915 module.
> >
> > Now if I can just get DMA working on the DVD drive, life will be
> > good. (hdparm returns an error when I try and set it.)
> >
> > Mikkel
>  
>  What snapshot would be better to use for the 865G video? Would the i810
>  or the i915 snapshot be more appropriate?
>  
>  Some earlier poster reported a blank screen with the stock install of
>  xorg-x11 that Fedora maintains. I have no problem with my installation
>  using the stock version.
>  
>  Anyway, if replacing the stock with the snapshots works, bugs should be
>  files in bugzilla for Fedora and the xorg i810 driver version.
>  
>  I had to replace Fedora compiled versions with snapshots before. It is
>  possible but needs repeated when the xorg-x11 driver for the i810 gets
>  replaced.
>  
>  Agreed that the difference between the vesa driver and the i810 are
>  worth getting the i810 working either from using the snapshot or not.
>  
>  When I had problems with the driver the i810_drv.so was all I replaced.
>  The location of the driver is different for FC5.
>  locate i810_drv
>  /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/i810_drv.so
>  
>  Does replacing the dri show any improvements? I am wondering because the
>  blank screen problem for Intel video cards was with xorg component with
>  my problem which was not a blank screen.
>  /usr/lib/dri/i915_dri.so
>  /usr/lib/dri/i810_dri.so
>  
>  
>  More curious and also hope to lead to getting the "one size fits all"
>  Intel driver fixed for the many Intel video cards it supports. (And lead
>  the other user with he blank screen to a solution.
>  
>  Jim
>   
All I can tell you is that I untared
i915-20060403-linux.i386.tar.bz2 and ran the install script in it.
It found the correct directory, and updated the files. As far as RPM
is concerned, the /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/i810_drv.so file is
owned by xorg-x11-drv-i810-1.4.1.3-3.1 and the
/usr/lib/dri/i810_dri.so is owned by mesa-libGL-6.4.2-6. i810_drv.so
was updated by the install script, and the i915_drv.so was added.

Now, when xorg-x11-drv-i810 gets updated, it will overwrite my
updated file. But I am hoping that the updated driver will included
in that release. If not, I'll have to replace it again. (I really
should build an RPM with the updates...)

Mikkel
-- 

  Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!

[Jim Cornette]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>  Jim Cornette wrote:
> >
>  All I can tell you is that I untared
>  i915-20060403-linux.i386.tar.bz2 and ran the install script in it.
>  It found the correct directory, and updated the files. As far as RPM
>  is concerned, the /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/i810_drv.so file is
>  owned by xorg-x11-drv-i810-1.4.1.3-3.1 and the
>  /usr/lib/dri/i810_dri.so is owned by mesa-libGL-6.4.2-6. i810_drv.so
>  was updated by the install script, and the i915_drv.so was added.
>  
>  Now, when xorg-x11-drv-i810 gets updated, it will overwrite my
>  updated file. But I am hoping that the updated driver will included
>  in that release. If not, I'll have to replace it again. (I really
>  should build an RPM with the updates...)
>  
>  Mikkel 
Thanks for the explanation, I did not realize the snapshots had scripts. 
I moved the files in the appropriate directories and set file 
permissions according to the replaced driver values when X was still 
monolithic.

Using scripts sounds a bit easier.

Jim


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voters to win the next election.

DMA on DVD drive was: Re: FC5 - Intel 945GM not working

[Todd Zullinger]

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Hi Mikkel,

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>  Now if I can just get DMA working on the DVD drive, life will be
>  good. (hdparm returns an error when I try and set it.) 
Have you tried adding a noprobe option to the kernel command line?  I
had no luck enabling DMA on the dvd drive in my laptop until I did
this.  In /etc/grub.conf, I added hdc=noprobe to the kernel line.  I
forget some of the details at the moment, but if you have SATA disk
drives that are seen as /dev/sd{a,b}, but the dvd is /dev/hdc (or
hdd), then adding a noprobe may help you too.

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DMA on DVD drive was: Re: FC5 - Intel 945GM not working

[Mikkel]

Todd Zullinger wrote:
>  Hi Mikkel,
>  
>  Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> >> Now if I can just get DMA working on the DVD drive, life will be
> >> good. (hdparm returns an error when I try and set it.)
>  
>  Have you tried adding a noprobe option to the kernel command line?  I
>  had no luck enabling DMA on the dvd drive in my laptop until I did
>  this.  In /etc/grub.conf, I added hdc=noprobe to the kernel line.  I
>  forget some of the details at the moment, but if you have SATA disk
>  drives that are seen as /dev/sd{a,b}, but the dvd is /dev/hdc (or
>  hdd), then adding a noprobe may help you too.
>   
Thanks. That did the trick. The DVD is now /dev/scd0 instead of
/dev/hdc. I can now play DVDs and VCDs on the system!!! Something
more to add to the page I am building an the A105-S4004. I will have
to check CD/DVD burning, but I don't expect problems. Who know, I
may get everything working one of these days...

Mikkel
-- 

  Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!

[Marcel Groner]

> >> I installed the latest Fedora Core 5 and upgraded the kernel
> yesterday:
> > Did you update xorg stuff as well ?
> > Or all updates ? 
yea, updated everything.

> >> (II) I810: Driver for Intel Integrated Graphics Chipsets:
> i810,
> >> i810-dc100,
> >>         i810e, i815, i830M, 845G, 852GM/855GM, 865G, 915G, E7221 (i915),
> >>         915GM, 945G
> >> (II) Primary Device is: PCI 00:02:0
> >> (--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device
> >> (WW) I810: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0:2:1)
> >> found
> >> (EE) No devices detected.
> >>
> >> Fatal server error:
> >> no screens found
> >>
> >> does anyone know how to fix that?
> > Looking at: http://wiki.x.org/wiki/FAQErrorMessages section 1.7.1,
> > Either the driver set is not the correct driver or it is the best fit
> > but not yet supported.
> > I see the i810 mentions 945G but not 945GM. They might be close enough
> > to be able to hack the detection into thinking you have a 945 ?
> >
> > Is the graphics chip in pci-ids.txt:
> > # lspci -v -s 00:02.1
> > What is the pci-id ?
> > # lspci -n -s 00:02.1 
# lspci -v -s 00:02.1
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile Integrated Graphics 
Controller (rev 03)
         Subsystem: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Unknown device c504
         Flags: fast devsel
         Memory at d8180000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
         Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2

# lspci -n -s 00:02.1
00:02.1 0380: 8086:27a6 (rev 03)

>  Coming into this late, but this may help. What I did on my Toshiba
>  laptop to make it work was to get i915-20060403-linux.i386.tar.bz2
>  from http://dri.freedesktop.org/snapshots/. Make sure you only
>  install that file, and not the common-20060403-linux.i386.tar.bz2
>  file, or you will break things. (I ended up with a blank screen and
>  had to get rid of the files from
>  common-20060403-linux.i386.tar.bz2.) You then pick the i810 driver.
>  It gives you much better video then using the VESA driver. You are
>  installing a replacement i810 and an i915 module. 
I just downloaded i915-20060403-linux.i386.tar.bz2 and installed it and 
it works replacing "vesa" driver with "i810", thanks alot! I setup
xorg 
with external monitor using the Xinerama option. But it seems that 3D 
acceleration is not working:

# glxinfo | grep rendering
direct rendering: No

is that because of the Xinerama option or do I have to enable something 
in my xorg.conf to enable direct rendering?

Marcel

[Andy Green]

Marcel Groner wrote:

>  I just downloaded i915-20060403-linux.i386.tar.bz2 and installed it
> and 
>  it works replacing "vesa" driver with "i810", thanks alot! I setup
> xorg 
>  with external monitor using the Xinerama option. But it seems that 3D 
>  acceleration is not working:
>  
>  # glxinfo | grep rendering
>  direct rendering: No
>  
>  is that because of the Xinerama option or do I have to enable something 
>  in my xorg.conf to enable direct rendering? 
You can come at this another way.  I went to the development repo and 
got these:

xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.0.99.901-6
xorg-x11-drv-i810-1.6.0-1
mesa-libGL-6.5-4
mesa-libGL-devel-6.5-4

Afterwards i810 was happy and I had some crappy 3D accel ~600fps in 
glxgears.  YMMV!  Evil repo munging abominations!  Take care if you 
attempt to duplicate.

xv goes wrong after a few plays of video, still functions but there is a 
blue halo around stuff and the colours are broken.  Still it's clear FC6 
will be supporting it if we don't see xorg updates during FC5.

-Andy