Intel G35 chipset: screen stays black

[Rainer Dorsch]

Am Mittwoch, 23. Januar 2008 schrieb Benjamin Pineau:
> On Saturday Jan 19 10:33:59 PST 2008 Jesse Barnes wrote:
> > Yeah, looks like the driver is even getting EDID data, which is good. 
> > IIRC there's at least one similar bug filed, but it's sporadic, not
> > consistent like you report.  Can you file a new bug for your issue?  It
> > sounds like we're not setting the mode correctly on HDMI outputs or
> > something...
>
> Is it really different from bz #13968 ?
> http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13968
>
> Btw, so far I think I'm the only one to have reported a working DVI
> with the intel driver on the G35 based Asus P5E-VM HDMI mb;
> and I still don't know what I did to get it suddently working.
> For instance on this forum, all owners of this mb reported to
> have the same bug, whatever they do:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=647449&page=4
> Seems pretty consistent to me.
>
> Rainer Dorsch: the bios upgrade should be a red herring after all.
> At least two people upgraded their motherboard bios to the
> same version as me and the problem is still there for them.
> I'm also running in 32bits (and Kevin DeKorte in 64bits) so this
> shouldn't be linked to the problem either.

The BIOS upgrade did not solve the problem for me either (Debian lenny, 32 
bit), there is a minor lspci difference though:

rd at blackbox:~$ diff 0202.lspci.out 0405.lspci.log
92c92
<       Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 8277
---
>       Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 829f
101,102c101,102
< 20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 43 10 77 82
< 30: 00 00 00 00 50 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 07 01 00 00
---
> 20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 43 10 9f 82
> 30: 00 00 00 00 50 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0f 01 00 00
163c163
< 30: 00 00 00 00 50 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0b 01 00 00
---
> 30: 00 00 00 00 50 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 07 01 00 00
176c176
< 30: 00 00 00 00 50 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0a 02 00 00
---
> 30: 00 00 00 00 50 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0e 02 00 00
202c202
< 30: 00 00 00 00 50 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0b 01 00 00
---
> 30: 00 00 00 00 50 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 07 01 00 00
231c231
< 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2920 (rev 02) 
(prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
---
> 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2920 (rev 02) 
(prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO])
237,247c237,247
<       Region 0: I/O ports at 01f0 [size=8]
<       Region 1: I/O ports at 03f4 [size=1]
<       Region 2: I/O ports at 0170 [size=8]
<       Region 3: I/O ports at 0374 [size=1]
<       Region 4: I/O ports at ff90 [size=16]
<       Region 5: I/O ports at ffa0 [size=16]
<       Capabilities: <access denied>
< 00: 86 80 20 29 05 00 b0 02 02 8a 01 01 00 00 00 00
< 10: 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00
< 20: 91 ff 00 00 a1 ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 43 10 77 82
< 30: 00 00 00 00 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 00
---
>       Region 0: I/O ports at ac00 [size=8]
>       Region 1: I/O ports at a880 [size=4]
>       Region 2: I/O ports at a800 [size=8]
>       Region 3: I/O ports at a480 [size=4]
>       Region 4: I/O ports at a400 [size=16]
>       Region 5: I/O ports at a080 [size=16]
>       Capabilities: <access denied>
> 00: 86 80 20 29 05 00 b0 02 02 8f 01 01 00 00 00 00
> 10: 01 ac 00 00 81 a8 00 00 01 a8 00 00 81 a4 00 00
> 20: 01 a4 00 00 81 a0 00 00 00 00 00 00 43 10 77 82
> 30: 00 00 00 00 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0f 02 00 00
277c277
< 30: 00 00 00 00 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 07 02 00 00
---
> 30: 00 00 00 00 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0f 02 00 00
rd at blackbox:~$ 


Can you provide your xorg.conf file somewhere?

Thanks,
Rainer

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