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

[Florian Manschwetus]

Barry Scott schrieb:
> 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.
I'm using xserver 1.5

Florian
> 
> 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);
> 
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