Framebuffer problem? when upgrading 13.0 to 13.1 on Vaio.
Dan Hetherington
way through the boot sequence, the screen goes black. I then tried a
fresh install of 13.1 with the same result.
I have a Sony Vaio VGN-BZ21VN.
The problem seems to be somewhat similar to this problem discussed
here in June:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.os.linux.slackware/browse_thread/thread/6b64df1d5abd9832/730177ffadef895f?lnk=raot&fwc=1
I've been able to get to a login prompt using the poster's solution of
adding nomodeset as a boot parameter, but as he found, I could then
not start X, with much the same error that he encountered:
(==) Using default built-in configuration (30 lines)
(EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) intel(0): No kernel modesetting driver detected.
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
Fatal server error:
no screens found
As posters suggested there, I have tried to boot using vga=normal
either in lilo.conf or as a parameter passed as boot time. I think
this may have worked once, but I haven't been able to repeat it a
second time, even doing the exact same thing, and even then I had the
same or a very similar problem launching X.
I have made sure that there is no xorg.conf in /etc/X11.
There is also some information on a similar install here, which I may
not have made full use of due to my own ignorance:
http://www.puresimplicity.net/~delahunt/linux/sony/sony.html
Does anyone else have suggestions for things I could try or extra
information I should provide?
Thanks in advance,
Dan
+Alan Hicks+
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On 2010-11-16, Dan Hetherington <orgd...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> I've just tried to upgrade from 13.0 to 13.1 but have found that mid-
> way through the boot sequence, the screen goes black.
This is a problem with KMS. In order to troubleshoot it we're going to
need to know what video card your laptop has and if it's an nvidia or
radeon card, if you've installed their binary blob drivers or not.
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On Nov 18, 3:36 pm, +Alan Hicks+ <a...@lizella.netWORK> wrote:
> On 2010-11-16, Dan Hetherington <orgdo...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > I've just tried to upgrade from 13.0 to 13.1 but have found that mid-
> > way through the boot sequence, the screen goes black.
>
> This is a problem with KMS. In order to troubleshoot it we're going to
> need to know what video card your laptop has and if it's an nvidia or
> radeon card, if you've installed their binary blob drivers or not.
To the best of my knowledge the video card is an "Intel GMA 4500MHD".
The full specs of the laptop are here:
http://alatest.co.uk/reviews/laptop-computer-reviews/sony-vaio-vgn-bz21vn/po3-76110411,30/#details
I haven't installed anything other than a vanilla Slackware 13.1
install. I never had any trouble with the graphics card under 13.0.
Thanks for any help you can offer,
Dan
Martin
> To the best of my knowledge the video card is an "Intel GMA 4500MHD".
> The full specs of the laptop are here:
> http://alatest.co.uk/reviews/laptop-computer-reviews/sony-vaio-vgn-
bz21vn/po3-76110411,30/#details
>
> I haven't installed anything other than a vanilla Slackware 13.1
> install. I never had any trouble with the graphics card under 13.0.
>
> Thanks for any help you can offer,
>
> Dan
Unfortunately, the intel drivers have been in a buggy state in recent
months, on all levels from kernel to xorg. Maybe an update to current might
help.
Martin
+Alan Hicks+
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On 2010-11-18, Dan Hetherington <orgd...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> To the best of my knowledge the video card is an "Intel GMA 4500MHD".
> The full specs of the laptop are here:
Hmm... That's odd. Rarely do you see problems with the intel video
cards in 13.1. Are you using the generic kernel or the huge kernel?
Please provide the output of lspci -v and the complete contents of
lilo.conf (preferably without the comments).
Are you by any chance dual-booting or using GRUB as your boot manager?
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Dan Hetherington
> Unfortunately, the intel drivers have been in a buggy state in recent
> months, on all levels from kernel to xorg. Maybe an update to current might
> help.
Thanks Martin, I'll keep that in mind and give it a try if all else
fails.
Dan
Dan Hetherington
> On 2010-11-18, Dan Hetherington <orgdo...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > To the best of my knowledge the video card is an "Intel GMA 4500MHD".
> > The full specs of the laptop are here:
>
> Hmm... That's odd. Rarely do you see problems with the intel video
> cards in 13.1. Are you using the generic kernel or the huge kernel?
huge, ie vmlinuz-huge-smp-2.6.33.4-smp
> Please provide the output of lspci -v and the complete contents of
> lilo.conf (preferably without the comments).
Forgive the verbosity, I wasn't 100% certain what's relevant and what
isn't:
root@vaio:~# lspci -v
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory
Controller Hub (rev 07)
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 903b
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: [e0] Vendor Specific Information <?>
Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel
Kernel modules: intel-agp
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series
Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07) (prog-if 00 [VGA
controller])
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 903b
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 30
Memory at d4400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
I/O ports at 6160 [size=8]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
Capabilities: [90] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 3
Kernel modules: i915
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset
Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 903b
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Memory at d7800000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 3
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82567LM Gigabit Network
Connection (rev 03)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 0000
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 27
Memory at daa00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
Memory at daa24000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
I/O ports at 60e0 [size=32]
Capabilities: [c8] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [d0] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [e0] PCI Advanced Features
Kernel driver in use: e1000e
Kernel modules: e1000e
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB
UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 903b
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
I/O ports at 60c0 [size=32]
Capabilities: [50] PCI Advanced Features
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci-hcd
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB
UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 903b
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 21
I/O ports at 60a0 [size=32]
Capabilities: [50] PCI Advanced Features
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci-hcd
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2
EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 903b
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
Memory at daa25400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [58] Debug port: BAR=1 offset=00a0
Capabilities: [98] PCI Advanced Features
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
Kernel modules: ehci-hcd
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio
Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 903b
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 29
Memory at daa20000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [60] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [70] Express Root Complex Integrated Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel <?>
Capabilities: [130] Root Complex Link <?>
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express
Port 1 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=06, subordinate=07, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 00005000-00005fff
Memory behind bridge: d9a00000-da9fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000d4800000-00000000d57fffff
Capabilities: [40] Express Root Port (Slot+), MSI 00
Capabilities: [80] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
Capabilities: [90] Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 903b
Capabilities: [a0] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel <?>
Capabilities: [180] Root Complex Link <?>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express
Port 3 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=04, subordinate=05, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 00004000-00004fff
Memory behind bridge: d8900000-d99fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000d5800000-00000000d67fffff
Capabilities: [40] Express Root Port (Slot+), MSI 00
Capabilities: [80] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
Capabilities: [90] Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 903b
Capabilities: [a0] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel <?>
Capabilities: [180] Root Complex Link <?>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express
Port 4 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=0a, subordinate=0b, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 00003000-00003fff
Memory behind bridge: d7900000-d88fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000d6800000-00000000d77fffff
Capabilities: [40] Express Root Port (Slot+), MSI 00
Capabilities: [80] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
Capabilities: [90] Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 903b
Capabilities: [a0] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel <?>
Capabilities: [180] Root Complex Link <?>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB
UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 903b
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 23
I/O ports at 6080 [size=32]
Capabilities: [50] PCI Advanced Features
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci-hcd
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB
UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 903b
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
I/O ports at 6060 [size=32]
Capabilities: [50] PCI Advanced Features
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci-hcd
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB
UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 903b
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
I/O ports at 6040 [size=32]
Capabilities: [50] PCI Advanced Features
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci-hcd
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB
UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 903b
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
I/O ports at 6020 [size=32]
Capabilities: [50] PCI Advanced Features
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci-hcd
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2
EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 903b
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 23
Memory at daa25000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [58] Debug port: BAR=1 offset=00a0
Capabilities: [98] PCI Advanced Features
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
Kernel modules: ehci-hcd
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93)
(prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=03, sec-latency=32
I/O behind bridge: 00002000-00002fff
Memory behind bridge: d2000000-d40fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000d0000000-00000000d1ffffff
Capabilities: [50] Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 903b
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M-E LPC Interface Controller
(rev 03)
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 903b
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: [e0] Vendor Specific Information <?>
Kernel modules: iTCO_wdt
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E 2 port SATA IDE
Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO])
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 903b
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
I/O ports at 6158 [size=8]
I/O ports at 6174 [size=4]
I/O ports at 6150 [size=8]
I/O ports at 6170 [size=4]
I/O ports at 6130 [size=16]
I/O ports at 6120 [size=16]
Capabilities: [70] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [b0] PCI Advanced Features
Kernel driver in use: ata_piix
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller
(rev 03)
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 903b
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 18
Memory at daa25800 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
I/O ports at 6000 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: i801_smbus
Kernel modules: i2c-i801
00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E 2 port SATA IDE
Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 85 [Master SecO PriO])
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 903b
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
I/O ports at 6148 [size=8]
I/O ports at 616c [size=4]
I/O ports at 6140 [size=8]
I/O ports at 6168 [size=4]
I/O ports at 6110 [size=16]
I/O ports at 6100 [size=16]
Capabilities: [70] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [b0] PCI Advanced Features
Kernel driver in use: ata_piix
01:07.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev ba)
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 903b
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 20
Memory at d4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=01, secondary=02, subordinate=03, sec-latency=176
Memory window 0: dc000000-dffff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: e0000000-e3fff000
I/O window 0: 00002000-000020ff
I/O window 1: 00002400-000024ff
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001
Kernel driver in use: yenta_cardbus
Kernel modules: yenta_socket
01:07.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller
(rev 04) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 903b
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 21
Memory at d4001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
Kernel driver in use: ohci1394
Kernel modules: ohci1394
01:07.2 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro
Host Adapter (rev 21)
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 903b
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 22
Memory at d4001900 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
Kernel driver in use: sdhci-pci
Kernel modules: sdhci-pci
01:07.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host
Adapter (rev 11)
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 903b
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 11
Memory at d4001800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=256]
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
04:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless WiFi Link 5100
Subsystem: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 5100AGN Network Connection
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 28
Memory at d8900000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Capabilities: [c8] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [d0] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [e0] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [140] Device Serial Number 00-22-fb-ff-ff-c2-2f-6a
Kernel driver in use: iwlagn
Kernel modules: iwlagn
root@vaio:~# cat /etc/lilo.conf | strcom
append=" vt.default_utf8=0"
boot = /dev/sda
bitmap = /boot/slack.bmp
bmp-colors = 255,0,255,0,255,0
bmp-table = 60,6,1,16
bmp-timer = 65,27,0,255
prompt
timeout = 1200
change-rules
reset
vga = normal
other = /dev/sda2
label = Windows
table = /dev/sda
image = /boot/vmlinuz
root = /dev/sda1
label = Linux
read-only
> Are you by any chance dual-booting or using GRUB as your boot manager?
As will be clear from the above I'm dual-booting with XP but using
Lilo.
Cheers,
Dan
Henrik Carlqvist
> To the best of my knowledge the video card is an "Intel GMA 4500MHD".
I have an intel core i5 myself with its integrated graphics myself running
on Slackware 13.1. To get it stable with the intel driver I had to disable
DRI by creating /etc/X11/xorg.conf with the following contents:
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Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/local"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/OTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/CID"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "glx"
Load "extmod"
# Load "dri2"
Load "dbe"
# Load "dri"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
# Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
# Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
EndSection
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>]
#Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "ColorKey" # <i>
#Option "CacheLines" # <i>
#Option "Dac6Bit" # [<bool>]
#Option "DRI" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoDDC" # [<bool>]
#Option "ShowCache" # [<bool>]
#Option "XvMCSurfaces" # <i>
#Option "PageFlip" # [<bool>]
Option "DRI" "False"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "intel"
VendorName "Unknown Vendor"
BoardName "Unknown Board"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
-8<----------------------------------------------
regards Henrik
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Dan Hetherington
Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.C...@deadspam.com> wrote:
> Dan Hetherington <orgd...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > To the best of my knowledge the video card is an "Intel GMA 4500MHD".
>
> I have an intel core i5 myself with its integrated graphics myself running
> on Slackware 13.1. To get it stable with the intel driver I had to disable
> DRI by creating /etc/X11/xorg.conf with the following contents:
Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm not (yet) having trouble with X --
so far I can't even boot as far as the command line (without
nomodeset), so I think I have a different problem to fix first.
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