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vesa used instead of i810: i915GM not detected.

Bug #28262 reported by Murray Cumming
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #35473: Intel Mobile 915 wrong detection. Edit Remove
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Bug Description

I have a Intel i915 on-board graphics chipset (in a Dell Dimension 5000 desktop
PC), but my xorg.conf specifies the vesa driver. This doesn't offer enough
support for video playback. For instance, xine skips frames and xine-check
reports "Your X server doesn't support YV12 overlays."

Changing "vesa" to "i180" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf fixes this.

(This Ubuntu was installed as Ubuntu Breezy and updated to Dapper. I don't know
if it's better when installing Dapper directly.)

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Daniel Stone (daniels) wrote :

can you please provide the output of lspci -n?

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Murray Cumming (murrayc) wrote :

murrayc@ubuntumurrayc:~$ lspci -n
0000:00:00.0 0600: 8086:2580 (rev 04)
0000:00:01.0 0604: 8086:2581 (rev 04)
0000:00:02.0 0300: 8086:2582 (rev 04)
0000:00:02.1 0380: 8086:2782 (rev 04)
0000:00:1c.0 0604: 8086:2660 (rev 03)
0000:00:1c.1 0604: 8086:2662 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.0 0c03: 8086:2658 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.1 0c03: 8086:2659 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.2 0c03: 8086:265a (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.3 0c03: 8086:265b (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.7 0c03: 8086:265c (rev 03)
0000:00:1e.0 0604: 8086:244e (rev d3)
0000:00:1e.2 0401: 8086:266e (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.0 0601: 8086:2640 (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.1 0101: 8086:266f (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.2 0101: 8086:2651 (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.3 0c05: 8086:266a (rev 03)
0000:04:03.0 0200: 14e4:4401 (rev 01)

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Danilo Piazzalunga (danilopiazza) wrote :

Same issue here, on a Toshiba Satellite M70 laptop.

0000:00:00.0 0600: 8086:2590 (rev 03)
0000:00:02.0 0300: 8086:2592 (rev 03)
0000:00:02.1 0380: 8086:2792 (rev 03)
0000:00:1c.0 0604: 8086:2660 (rev 03)
0000:00:1c.1 0604: 8086:2662 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.0 0c03: 8086:2658 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.1 0c03: 8086:2659 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.2 0c03: 8086:265a (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.3 0c03: 8086:265b (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.7 0c03: 8086:265c (rev 03)
0000:00:1e.0 0604: 8086:2448 (rev d3)
0000:00:1e.2 0401: 8086:266e (rev 03)
0000:00:1e.3 0703: 8086:266d (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.0 0601: 8086:2641 (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.1 0101: 8086:266f (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.2 0101: 8086:2653 (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.3 0c05: 8086:266a (rev 03)
0000:06:01.0 0200: 10ec:8139 (rev 10)
0000:06:02.0 0280: 8086:4220 (rev 05)
0000:06:04.0 0607: 104c:8031
0000:06:04.2 0c00: 104c:8032
0000:06:04.3 0180: 104c:8033
0000:06:04.4 0805: 104c:8034

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William Grant (wgrant) wrote :

This looks to be the same bug as https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/28262, so there are a 3 more cases of this happening. Note that it was fine in Breezy, and only occurred with the switch to Xorg 7.

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Daniel Goldsmith (daniel-goldsmith) wrote :

Same result for me. Error certainly only occurs in Dapper installation, fine under Breezy.

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Simo Hellsten (simohell) wrote :

My 915GM fails to be identified, but switching the driver manually from x.org fails to display anything in 1280x768 mode. (vesa however works fine)

With Xinerama enabled and another display attached it displays everything else but mouse cursor (using i810 that is).

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Simo Hellsten (simohell) wrote :

That was Flight 4 clean install.

Installation nor dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg helps.

Daniel Stone (daniels)
Changed in xorg:
assignee: daniels → nobody
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Eric Feliksik (milouny) wrote :

My savage8 chip also used "vesa" after install, while older releases recognized it and used the "savage" driver. See https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-driver-savage/+bug/32377

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Andreas Schildbach (schildbach) wrote :

I'm coming from bug 30803, which is a duplicate of this one.

I have this problem with a fresh install of Dapper Flight 5 on a Dell X1 (i915GMS).

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Florian Boucault (fboucault) wrote :

Same issue here on a Dapper Flight 5 install.

sudo discover video:
Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller

lspci -n:

0000:00:00.0 0600: 8086:2590 (rev 03)
0000:00:02.0 0300: 8086:2592 (rev 03)
0000:00:02.1 0380: 8086:2792 (rev 03)
0000:00:1c.0 0604: 8086:2660 (rev 03)
0000:00:1c.2 0604: 8086:2664 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.0 0c03: 8086:2658 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.1 0c03: 8086:2659 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.2 0c03: 8086:265a (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.3 0c03: 8086:265b (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.7 0c03: 8086:265c (rev 03)
0000:00:1e.0 0604: 8086:2448 (rev d3)
0000:00:1e.2 0401: 8086:266e (rev 03)
0000:00:1e.3 0703: 8086:266d (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.0 0601: 8086:2641 (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.2 0101: 8086:2653 (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.3 0c05: 8086:266a (rev 03)
0000:02:00.0 0200: 14e4:167d (rev 11)
0000:04:00.0 0607: 104c:ac56
0000:04:02.0 0280: 8086:4220 (rev 05)

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Florian Boucault (fboucault) wrote :

marked as duplicate of bug #35473 : fix is written, needs to be released.

Changed in xorg:
status: Needs Info → In Progress
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Paul Sladen (sladen) wrote :

This PCI IDs were added.

Changed in xorg:
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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