Package: xorg
Version: 1:7.5+8
Severity: important
I'm really sorry; I don't know what package this bug belongs to. This seems
like a good place to start.
A recent upgrade (I upgrade every couple of weeks) broke X with the following
symptoms:
1) Display failed to find "1680x1050" and dropped to "1280x1024" instead.
2) Refused to connect to external monitor (both DVI through docking station and
LCD projector through VGA cable).
3) KDE systemsettings only found "default" rather than LVDS1 and DVI1 etc;
xrandr complained similarly.
4) Screen brightness control through "xbacklight" returned an error.
Xorg.0.conf seemed to show (I'm not too good at reading them) that the Intel
driver had loaded, but that the FBdev driver claimed the PCI slot. In the
past, the Intel driver was used. NOTE that reportbug picked up the
post-workaround (below) xorg.0.log, which I'm leaving in as a baseline. I will
attach the failed one separately as soon as I get the bugID.
I thought it might be related to #606288, but I believe not, because I could
switch VTs and my system did not lock.
Workaround: "modprobe i915" killed X, but GDM restarted and now the system
seems to be using the Intel driver (the above symptoms disappeared). I will
add this line to /etc/modules, but that's a kludge. Again, sorry to assign the
bug so vaguely; a developer will know what to do with it.
So perhaps this bug should be reassigned to some facility that is in charge of
loading modules? I'm sorry I can't dig into this right now, but I'd love to
provide more info if you email me questions.
I'm on a ThinkPad T61... lspci's output follows.
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory
Controller Hub (rev 0c)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960
Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated
Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82566MM Gigabit Network
Connection (rev 03)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI
Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio
Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1
(rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2
(rev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 3
(rev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4
(rev 03)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 5
(rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI
Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HBM (ICH8M-E) LPC Interface
Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE
Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA
AHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan]
Network Connection (rev 02)
15:00.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev ba)
15:00.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 04)
15:00.2 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host
Adapter (rev 21)
15:00.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev ff)
15:00.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter
(rev 11)
15:00.5 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 11)
-- Package-specific info:
/var/lib/x11/X.roster does not exist.
/var/lib/x11/X.md5sum does not exist.
X server symlink status:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 May 1 2008 /etc/X11/X -> /usr/bin/Xorg
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1733512 Dec 1 17:16 /usr/bin/Xorg
/var/lib/x11/xorg.conf.roster does not exist.
VGA-compatible devices on PCI bus:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960
Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
/var/lib/x11/xorg.conf.md5sum does not exist.
Xorg X server configuration file status:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3676 Sep 30 10:26 /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Contents of /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
# -*- sh -*-
# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file
