i810 & i915 blank screen Intel Corporation 82845G onboard video
Hello all, need a little help on a used computer I purchased to set up a LAN at my house if I can get it working.
Its a dell with a onboard video (82845g) but anyway I've been trying since last night to get x working on this dude with a P780 dell monitor. The problem is when I startx I get a blank screen with the mouse, that's all I get. I know my way around the system and have tried everything I know and checked the logs for anything stupid but the only thing I can see is that my xorg.conf card is listed as a i810 (should be the right one) but for some reason it loads the i915. I've blacklist the module (i915) and it always loads it no matter what. I even modprobe the i810 to make sure it's loaded which it was and still nothing but a "blank screen with mouse". I've generated new xorg.conf, searched the net for clues about what it could be. I wanted to figure this out on my own but I can not so I'm at the best place for advice. Here's the xorg.conf I'm working with ( it's long ) Code:
Section "Module" So, everyone have a look and ideas are welcome. David |
You are supposed to compile as a module the 810 KERNEL driver , the 915 and the kernel will choose which one to load.
i810 is the XORG module If you have only one card, no need for busid Also you section screen is quite complicated, can't you use a normal one? Remnove the line with DRI also for testing. Maybe try to launch Xorg -configure as root Try it as 1024x768 depth 16 or 24 I don't have this card but I'm using the same driver. |
On the other hand, if you can see the mouse pointer doesn't it mean that the graphics card is working OK? Maybe there's something about the desktop environment or login manager you're trying to run. You can try xwmconfig to set your default WM to one of the lightweight ones and do startx to see if they work.
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Ok, I'm still lost on this one but I have alot more information. I also wanted to make sure that I didn't have a bad disk that I used to install Slackware with so I downloaded, checked md5sum, burned, and reinstalled.
I checked the config file for the kernel and it looks like I do have the 810 stuff compiled in the kernel. Code:
CONFIG_DRM_I810=m Code:
agp/ Code:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Contro ller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 01) Code:
Section "ServerLayout" Code:
Module Size Used by I know this is a super lot of information, but I just can not get x working and maybe someone can help me out. also, in the Xorg.log I have the following (WW) that I don't have a clue on. I810(0): Setting the original video mode instead of restoring the saved file. I810(0): Extended BIOS function 0x5f85 not supported Maybe these something in all this that helps. |
Could someone give this a look.. I still have not figured it out.
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Can you post the rest of you 'Xorg.log', also try looking in the BIOS and make sure everything is ok in there.
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Thank you so much for taking a interest in this for me. Maybe I can get Slackware up and going so I can set up the LAN I want.
Here's a link to the files https://home.comcast.net/~davimint/Xorg Thanks so much for helping me. |
Can you try lowering these:
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HorizSync 30-85 Code:
HorizSync 28.0 - 65.0 Code:
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" 'kernel-modules-smp-2.6.17.13-i686-3.tgz' You can also try adding Code:
Option "NODDC" "1" |
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Still no luck, I think it's a driver issue becuase I can get a gui in gparted or Zenwalk-LiveCD. I've done so much trying to get this to work I don't know what to try next. I just cleared the HD again for the third time and in the process of installing Slackware again... I'm not going to give up on this.... I'll figure it out if it takes me "YEARS" I don't care I've got more time than money and "WILL NOT" let myself install "WINDOWS" on this machine just to get it done. I'm going to be a "LINUX" guru one of these day's so I guess I'll just have to figure out X11 in the process and now it the time. So, I've armed my self with several live-cd's and will hack, read, and probably post again in a day or so.... I'm going to get it and thanks for the help. |
You may want to try out Slackware -current. It may work better with that card/chipset.
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Your xorg.conf and xorg.log look fine...
If you manage to get one distro working then write down the kernel version (for the i915, agp_intel and drm kernel modules) and look at the xorg version in xorg.log. If you transpose it to the distro you want, it should work. The xorg modules will probably be the same if you take the same xorg version. |
I'm going to repeat myself here, but are you sure it's a graphics card problem? Intel chips don't cause that much trouble under Linux:
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i'd agree with Ilgar, I don't think this is a driver or kernel issue, but there seems to be no window manager loading.
what is your default WM? you might try '$echo startfluxbox > ~/.xinitrc' and see if something pops up. its also a very easy fix if thats the problem. another way to check that would be to look at what happens with the xorg.conf-vesa (in /etc/X11) |
It (used computer) is cursed !!!!! (ha-ha)
I managed to get the Zenwalk-Live cd working by changing to my lcd monitor on my other machine. The reason for the change was the monitor P780 Dell died on me. So now I'm stuck wondering if there's something in the video that killed the monitor. I surly don't wont to kill my lcd monitor fooling with this used computer. So, maybe someone could give me there point of view on this. Also, the zenwalk kernel was 2.6.20 and here's the main x-files that worked like a charm. https://home.comcast.net/~davimint/zenwalk_xorg.conf https://home.comcast.net/~davimint/zenwalk_lsmod https://home.comcast.net/~davimint/zenwalk_Xorg.0.log Thanks to all who helped and advise on the "used computer" is welcome. |
Ilgar is maybe right yes. I had overlooked this post. Seeing the mouse pointer is a good sign.
Try to check your WM and the suggestion posted. Checking your xorg.log the slack one is: Quote:
And the Zenwalk is: Quote:
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