[Intel-gfx] X not starting - Output VGA disconnected message on DH55HC VGA output

Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com
Sun Jan 24 00:53:57 CET 2010


Hi,
   First post here. Thanks in advance.

   I purchased an Intel DH55HC motherboard with a Core i5-661
processor a couple of days ago and am attempting to bring up X at this
time. The machine is functional, running Gentoo 64-bit, and seems
quite fast. The only monitors I own are standard old-style VGA so I'm
attaching to the old-style analog VGA connector on the motherboard. I
have no PCI or PCI-X graphics adapters in the machine. My problem
seems to be that xorg-server is not recognizing that the VGA is
actually hooked up:

(II) intel(0): Output VGA using monitor section Monitor0
(II) intel(0): Output VGA disconnected
(WW) intel(0): No outputs definitely connected, trying again...
(II) intel(0): Output VGA disconnected
(WW) intel(0): Unable to find initial modes
(EE) intel(0): No valid modes.
(II) UnloadModule: "intel"
(II) UnloadModule: "vgahw"
(II) Unloading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules//libvgahw.so
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

   I'm wondering if there is a feature in the xorg.conf file that can
turn this on, or if there is some more recent version of Intel drivers
that already has this fixed?

   I'm attaching xorg.conf and some hardware/module info. Let me know
what else you need to know and I'll get it ASAP.

Cheers,
Mark

firefly ~ # uname -a
Linux firefly 2.6.32-gentoo-r2 #4 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jan 23 13:40:36 PST
2010 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU 661 @ 3.33GHz GenuineIntel
GNU/Linux
firefly ~ #


firefly ~ # emerge -pv xorg-server xorg-drivers xf86-video-intel

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.6.5-r1  USE="ipv6 nptl sdl xorg
-debug -dmx -hal -kdrive -minimal -tslib" 0 kB
[ebuild   R   ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel-2.9.1  USE="dri -debug" 0 kB
[ebuild   R   ] x11-base/xorg-drivers-1.6  INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard
mouse -acecad -aiptek -citron -elographics -evdev -fpit -hyperpen
-joystick -mutouch -penmount -synaptics -tslib -virtualbox -vmmouse
-void -wacom" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev intel vesa -apm -ark -ast -chips
-cirrus -dummy -epson -fglrx (-geode) -glint -i128 (-i740) (-impact)
-mach64 -mga -neomagic (-newport) -nv -nvidia -r128 -radeon -radeonhd
-rendition -s3 -s3virge -savage -siliconmotion -sis -sisusb (-sunbw2)
(-suncg14) (-suncg3) (-suncg6) (-sunffb) (-sunleo) (-suntcx) -tdfx
-tga -trident -tseng -v4l -via -virtualbox -vmware (-voodoo) (-xgi)" 0
kB

Total: 3 packages (3 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 0 kB
firefly ~ #

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/misc/"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/OTF"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load  "glx"
        Load  "dbe"
        Load  "extmod"
        Load  "dri"
        Load  "record"
        Load  "dri2"
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 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
        VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
        ModelName    "Monitor Model"
        HorizSync    30.0 - 81.0
        VertRefresh  56.0 - 75.0
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>]
        Identifier  "Card0"
        Driver      "intel"
        VendorName  "Intel Corporation"
        BoardName   "Clarkdale Integrated Graphics Controller"
        BusID       "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Card0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth 16
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     1
                Modes     "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     4
                Modes     "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     8
                Modes     "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     15
                Modes     "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     16
                Modes     "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
                Modes     "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
        EndSubSection
EndSection


firefly ~ # lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Clarkdake DRAM Controller (rev 12)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Clarkdale
Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 12)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak HECI
Controller (rev 06)
00:16.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak PT IDER Controller (rev 06)
00:16.3 Serial controller: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak KT Controller (rev 06)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82578DC Gigabit Network
Connection (rev 06)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak USB2 Enhanced Host
Controller (rev 06)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak High Definition Audio (rev 06)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 06)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak PCI Express Root Port 5 (rev 06)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak USB2 Enhanced Host
Controller (rev 06)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev a6)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak LPC Interface
Controller (rev 06)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak 6 port SATA AHCI
Controller (rev 06)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak SMBus Controller (rev 06)
03:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB82AA2 IEEE-1394b
Link Layer Controller (rev 01)
03:02.0 Multimedia audio controller: Xilinx Corporation RME Hammerfall
DSP (rev 68)
firefly ~ #


firefly ~ # lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
i915                  205481  0
drm_kms_helper         18363  1 i915
drm                   131843  2 i915,drm_kms_helper
i2c_algo_bit            4223  1 i915
i2c_core               15008  3 i915,drm,i2c_algo_bit
ipv6                  217359  22
usbhid                 21449  0
snd_hda_codec_intelhdmi    10367  1
snd_hda_codec_realtek   234271  1
snd_hdsp               39312  0
snd_hda_intel          17585  0
snd_rawmidi            14563  1 snd_hdsp
snd_hda_codec          45531  3
snd_hda_codec_intelhdmi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
snd_seq_device          4341  1 snd_rawmidi
firmware_class          5698  1 snd_hdsp
snd_pcm                53577  3 snd_hdsp,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
video                  17309  1 i915
e1000e                108826  0
snd_timer              14966  1 snd_pcm
ohci1394               24421  0
ehci_hcd               30406  0
backlight               3292  1 video
snd_hwdep               4972  1 snd_hdsp
ieee1394               59211  1 ohci1394
usbcore               111603  3 usbhid,ehci_hcd
snd_page_alloc          5777  3 snd_hdsp,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
rtc_cmos                7592  0
snd                    42070  10
snd_hda_codec_intelhdmi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hdsp,snd_hda_intel,snd_rawmidi,snd_hda_codec,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
button                  4530  1 i915
rtc_core               11077  1 rtc_cmos
output                  1540  1 video
sg                     22853  0
rtc_lib                 1617  1 rtc_core
processor              23223  4
thermal                11522  0
soundcore               4655  1 snd
intel_agp              24181  1
thermal_sys            10533  3 video,processor,thermal
firefly ~ #




firefly ~ # modinfo intel_agp
filename:
/lib/modules/2.6.32-gentoo-r2/kernel/drivers/char/agp/intel-agp.ko
license:        GPL and additional rights
author:         Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
alias:          pci:v00008086d0000006Asv*sd*bc06sc00i00*
alias:          pci:v00008086d00000062sv*sd*bc06sc00i00*
alias:          pci:v00008086d00000044sv*sd*bc06sc00i00*
alias:          pci:v00008086d00000040sv*sd*bc06sc00i00*
alias:          pci:v00008086d00002E40sv*sd*bc06sc00i00*
alias:          pci:v00008086d00002E30sv*sd*bc06sc00i00*
alias:          pci:v00008086d00002E20sv*sd*bc06sc00i00*
alias:          pci:v00008086d00002E10sv*sd*bc06sc00i00*
alias:          pci:v00008086d00002E00sv*sd*bc06sc00i00*
alias:          pci:v00008086d00002A40sv*sd*bc06sc00i00*
alias:          pci:v00008086d000029D0sv*sd*bc06sc00i00*
alias:          pci:v00008086d000029B0sv*sd*bc06sc00i00*
alias:          pci:v00008086d000029C0sv*sd*bc06sc00i00*
alias:          pci:v00008086d00002A10sv*sd*bc06sc00i00*
alias:          pci:v00008086d00002A00sv*sd*bc06sc00i00*
alias:          pci:v00008086d000029A0sv*sd*bc06sc00i00*
alias:          pci:v00008086d00002990sv*sd*bc06sc00i00*
alias:          pci:v00008086d00002980sv*sd*bc06sc00i00*
alias:          pci:v00008086d00002970sv*sd*bc06sc00i00*
alias:          pci:v00008086d0000A000sv*sd*bc06sc00i00*
alias:          pci:v00008086d0000A010sv*sd*bc06sc00i00*
alias:          pci:v00008086d000027ACsv*sd*bc06sc00i00*
alias:          pci:v00008086d000027A0sv*sd*bc06sc00i00*
alias:          pci:v00008086d00002770sv*sd*bc06sc00i00*
alias:          pci:v00008086d00002590sv*sd*bc06sc00i00*
alias:          pci:v00008086d00002580sv*sd*bc06sc00i00*
alias:          pci:v00008086d00002588sv*sd*bc06sc00i00*
alias:          pci:v00008086d0000255Dsv*sd*bc06sc00i00*
alias:          pci:v00008086d00002550sv*sd*bc06sc00i00*
alias:          pci:v00008086d00002578sv*sd*bc06sc00i00*
alias:          pci:v00008086d00002570sv*sd*bc06sc00i00*
alias:          pci:v00008086d00002531sv*sd*bc06sc00i00*
alias:          pci:v00008086d00003580sv*sd*bc06sc00i00*
alias:          pci:v00008086d00003340sv*sd*bc06sc00i00*
alias:          pci:v00008086d0000358Csv*sd*bc06sc00i00*
alias:          pci:v00008086d00002530sv*sd*bc06sc00i00*
alias:          pci:v00008086d00002560sv*sd*bc06sc00i00*
alias:          pci:v00008086d00001A30sv*sd*bc06sc00i00*
alias:          pci:v00008086d00001A21sv*sd*bc06sc00i00*
alias:          pci:v00008086d00003575sv*sd*bc06sc00i00*
alias:          pci:v00008086d00002501sv*sd*bc06sc00i00*
alias:          pci:v00008086d00002500sv*sd*bc06sc00i00*
alias:          pci:v00008086d00001130sv*sd*bc06sc00i00*
alias:          pci:v00008086d00007124sv*sd*bc06sc00i00*
alias:          pci:v00008086d00007122sv*sd*bc06sc00i00*
alias:          pci:v00008086d00007120sv*sd*bc06sc00i00*
alias:          pci:v00008086d000071A0sv*sd*bc06sc00i00*
alias:          pci:v00008086d00007190sv*sd*bc06sc00i00*
alias:          pci:v00008086d00007180sv*sd*bc06sc00i00*
depends:
vermagic:       2.6.32-gentoo-r2 SMP preempt mod_unload modversions
firefly ~ # modinfo i915
filename:
/lib/modules/2.6.32-gentoo-r2/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915.ko
license:        GPL and additional rights
description:    Intel Graphics
author:         Tungsten Graphics, Inc.
license:        GPL and additional rights
depends:        drm,drm_kms_helper,i2c-core,video,button,i2c-algo-bit
vermagic:       2.6.32-gentoo-r2 SMP preempt mod_unload modversions
parm:           modeset:int
parm:           fbpercrtc:int
parm:           powersave:int
firefly ~ #



firefly ~ # emerge --info
Portage 2.2_rc61 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.4,
glibc-2.10.1-r1, 2.6.32-gentoo-r2 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.32-gentoo-r2-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i5_CPU_661_ at _3.33GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.13
Timestamp of tree: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 02:15:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     4.0_p35
dev-lang/python:     2.6.4
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.13
sys-apps/sandbox:    2.2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.63-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6b
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.27-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* - at EULA"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d
/etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d
/etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps y"
FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch
preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs
unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ "
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="en"
MAKEOPTS="-j5"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times
--compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180
--exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2
cairo cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri dts dvd dvdr
eds emboss encode evo fam firefox flac fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm
gstreamer gtk iconv ipv6 jpeg kde ldap libnotify mad mikmod mmx mng
modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg
opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3support qt4
quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl
startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd thunar tiff truetype unicode usb
vorbis x264 xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hdsp usb"
ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty
extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul
mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol"
APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon
authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default
authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav
dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter
file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime
mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id
userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard
mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780
lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18"
USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel vesa fbdev"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL,
PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS,
PORTDIR_OVERLAY

firefly ~ #



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