[Intel-gfx] problem with (unsupported?) almador i830GM

[Barry Scott]

Jin, Gordon wrote:
> Barry Scott wrote on Friday, September 19, 2008 6:15 PM:
>   
>> Jin, Gordon wrote:
>>     
>>> Florian Manschwetus wrote on Thursday, September 18, 2008 10:04 PM:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> I'll attach all infos I have so far.
>>>>
>>>> The machine is a Fujitsu Siemens Stylistic ST4110
>>>> running Gentoo ~x86 (tuxonice-sources-2.6.26) + kde4.1
>>>> (kde-svn-overlay) 
>>>>
>>>> if you need further information please ask (randr rotation and
>>>> display management would be really great, of course it is a tablet)
>>>> ;) 
>>>>
>>>> florian
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> It seems your problem is X can't startup with no output detected.
>>> Please file a bug according to
>>> http://www.intellinuxgraphics.org/how_to_report_bug.html, so we
>>> could track this issue. 
>>>
>>>       
>> Isn't this a solved problem?
>>
>> I think the problem of starting with no output detected had been fixed
>> in the Xserver
>> code. I think you need 1.5. I'm not running that version yet to
>> confirm it works
>> but looking at the changes in the server it seems right now.
>>
>> It is possible to patch the intel driver to work around the issue if
>> you are stuck
>> on an older Xserver.
>>     
>
> I think you are talking about bug#14611. I don't think it's fixed.
>
>   
That's not the one I'm thinking about. We currently patch 2.4.1
to "Hack around the XServer's refusal to provide modes for disconnected 
outputs".

This is fixed in Xserver 1.5 I believe. We are still on Xserver 1.3.x.

Barry

Index: src/i830_crt.c
===================================================================
--- src/i830_crt.c    (revision 12130)
+++ src/i830_crt.c    (revision 12131)
@@ -361,7 +361,7 @@
     if (i830_crt_detect_hotplug(output))
         status = XF86OutputStatusConnected;
     else
-        status = XF86OutputStatusDisconnected;
+        status = XF86OutputStatusUnknown;
 
     goto out;
     }
@@ -376,7 +376,7 @@
     if (connected)
     status = XF86OutputStatusConnected;
     else
-    status = XF86OutputStatusDisconnected;
+    status = XF86OutputStatusUnknown;
 
 out:
     i830ReleaseLoadDetectPipe (output, dpms_mode);