Bug#618665: linux-image-2.6.32-5-686: mouse pointer not visible and crashes when playing video files
Am Samstag, den 19.03.2011, 17:52 +1030 schrieb maikkeli: Renaming /etc/modprobe.d/i915.modeset.conf to /etc/modprobe.d/i915.modeset.conf.disabled does not disable modesetting, as confirmed by the output of: # cat /sys/module/i915/parameters/modeset Editing /etc/modprobe.d/i915.modeset.conf to contain the following, did disable modesetting: options i915 modeset=1 ..However, this simply causes the xorg intel driver to fail to load, falling back to vesa which works perfectly but is slow. I just took a look what my i915.modeset.conf, and it contains exactly the line 'options i915 modeset=1', and 'cat /sys/module/i915/parameters/modeset' yields 1 (kernel 2.6.32-31). I changed this to 'options i915 modeset=0' and rebooted. During boot, I noticed that the resolution (the font-size of the boot messages) is much lower, and directly before showing the login screen there is a brief, slightly distorted flash of the BIOS' spash-screen -- BTW, the same as if I live-boot Linux Mint 9. After boot, the mouse pointer was visible (still on kernel version 2.6.32-31) and I could play videos, but the playback was unusably slow. I also tried live-booting Ubuntu 10.04 once more. - if I boot with no parameters, the boot hangs instantly - if I boot with 'nolapic', it boots to a black screen - if I boot with 'nolapic' and 'i915.modeset=1', it boots to the desktop and even has composition enabled (and thus 3D acceleration), but crashes after a few seconds, falling back to reduced graphic settings As a reminder, I can boot Debian with 'nolapic' and with /sys/module/i915/parameters/modeset yielding '1', and everything runs fine (with kernel 2.6.32-30), but no 3D acceleration. I do not expect to get my 3D acceleration fixed here, but maybe this information is of some relevance for fixing the bug. Regards, Tobias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#618665: linux-image-2.6.32-5-686: mouse pointer not visible
I experienced too disappearance of mouse pointer right after upgrade to 2.6.32-31 and reboot. My machine is an Acer TM2301 with i855gm graphics and 768 MB ram. Downgrading to 2.6.32-30 resolved the issue. Regards, Lorenzo Masellis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#618665: linux-image-2.6.32-5-686: mouse pointer not visible and crashes when playing video files
On 17/03/2011 13:16, Tobias Küster wrote: After updating the packages 'linux-base' and 'linux-image-2.6.32-5-686' from version 2.6.32-30 (stable) to 2.6.32-31 (squeeze-proposed-updates) and restarting the system, my mouse pointer was not shown any more. The mouse and other pointing devices were still usable (move, click, rightclick, context menus, hover-effects on icons and menus), only the pointer was not visible. [...] I am running Debian Squeeze Stable on a Asus M2400N Laptop (from mid 2003) with Intel 855 graphics. I have to boot with the 'nolapic' option and have no 3D acceleration, but otherwise my system is running fine again, after downgrading the kernel. Mmh, strange. Maybe it's completely unrelated but the mouse pointer problem looks the same that many people with i855 (me included) have seen with 2.6.35 and 2.6.36 prereleases, until rc6. It's documented here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=592415 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=592955 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=596901 From the message closing the bug: drm/i915: Ensure that the crtcinfo is populated during mode_fixup() (Closes: #592415) P.S.: i suggest you to try also the hpet=force option because in our ICH4 seems that hpet was present but not documented. P.P.S.: life for i8xx users is not and will not be easy. As far i know the 8xx series continue to cause big headaches upstream and users from time to time experiment regressions. Ciao. Cesare. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#618665: linux-image-2.6.32-5-686: mouse pointer not visible and crashes when playing video files
On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 13:16 +0100, Tobias Küster wrote: Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.32-30 Severity: important Tags: upstream After updating the packages 'linux-base' and 'linux-image-2.6.32-5-686' from version 2.6.32-30 (stable) to 2.6.32-31 (squeeze-proposed-updates) and restarting the system, my mouse pointer was not shown any more. The mouse and other pointing devices were still usable (move, click, rightclick, context menus, hover-effects on icons and menus), only the pointer was not visible. Switching to another mouse pointer theme did not solve the problem, either. There are two bug fixes in -31 that would affect an i855 GPU: drm/i915: overlay on gen2 can't address above 1G This should only affect custom kernel packages. However, if you have more than 1 GB RAM in this system, please test with the extra kernel parameter 'mem=1G'. drm/i915: add pipe A force quirks to i915 driver There is a common BIOS bug: during suspend, it tries to use the GPU after it has been completely stopped by the driver, which causes the system to hang. The X driver had a workaround for this, but that was lost in the switch to Kernel Mode Setting. This restores the workaround, in the kernel driver. Did you ever experience that bug (failure to suspend) in Linux 2.6.32? Does the current bug disappear if you disable Kernel Mode Setting (rename the file /etc/modprobe.d/i915-kms.conf to i915-kms.conf.disabled and reboot)? [...] I am running Debian Squeeze Stable on a Asus M2400N Laptop (from mid 2003) with Intel 855 graphics. I have to boot with the 'nolapic' option and have no 3D acceleration, but otherwise my system is running fine again, after downgrading the kernel. [...] What do you mean when you say 'no 3D acceleration'? The i855 GPU certainly has some 3D functionality. Is it disabled in some way, or are you just not using it? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Bug#618665: linux-image-2.6.32-5-686: mouse pointer not visible and crashes when playing video files
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 14:03:03 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: What do you mean when you say 'no 3D acceleration'? The i855 GPU certainly has some 3D functionality. Is it disabled in some way, or are you just not using it? Acceleration is disabled by default for gen2 (i8xx) in the squeeze intel X driver. Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#618665: linux-image-2.6.32-5-686: mouse pointer not visible and crashes when playing video files
This should only affect custom kernel packages. However, if you have more than 1 GB RAM in this system, please test with the extra kernel parameter 'mem=1G'. My system has only 768 MB RAM. Did you ever experience that bug (failure to suspend) in Linux 2.6.32? No, suspend works fine, and always did, both with 2.6.32-30 and 2.6.32-31. Does the current bug disappear if you disable Kernel Mode Setting (rename the file /etc/modprobe.d/i915-kms.conf to i915-kms.conf.disabled and reboot)? I updated to 2.6.32-31 again and did as you said, but without success. Right after boot-up, the mouse pointer was invisible (until doing the suspend-trick), and the systems hangs when trying to play any kind of video. I also used this chance to go through the BugReport-Process again to generate usable Package-specific info for my system. However, apart from the actual kernel log everything was the same, especially there was no difference in the loaded modules or the likes (only slightly different sizes on some modules, as would be expected). So I just attached the kernel log, starting from boot up. Hope this helps. What do you mean when you say 'no 3D acceleration'? The i855 GPU certainly has some 3D functionality. Is it disabled in some way, or are you just not using it? Actually, I do not know whether I have _no_ 3D acceleration or whether the 3D acceleration is just horribly bad. Before switching to Debian 6 merely two weeks ago, I was running Ubuntu 8.04 (which is now no longer supported), with which I could use composition desktop effects and play Quake 3 fluently. Now I can not even activate composition effects (not much of a loss...), and Quake 1 'runs' at approximately one frame every other second (Fitzquake engine). (Still better than newer versions of Ubuntu, which wouldn't even boot on my machine any more.) So, as far as I can tell, 3D acceleration is disabled by default, and I haven't looked into how to activate it yet (and do not have much hope in succeeding to do so, after everything I've read so far). Please let me know if I can try anything else with kernel version 2.6.32-31; otherwise I'd like to switch back to 2.6.32-30, soon. ;-) Regards, Tobias kernel-log_2.6.32-31_full.txt.tar.gz Description: application/compressed-tar
Bug#618665: linux-image-2.6.32-5-686: mouse pointer not visible and crashes when playing video files
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.32-30 Severity: important Tags: upstream After updating the packages 'linux-base' and 'linux-image-2.6.32-5-686' from version 2.6.32-30 (stable) to 2.6.32-31 (squeeze-proposed-updates) and restarting the system, my mouse pointer was not shown any more. The mouse and other pointing devices were still usable (move, click, rightclick, context menus, hover-effects on icons and menus), only the pointer was not visible. Switching to another mouse pointer theme did not solve the problem, either. (Occasionally, the mouse pointer /was/ visible directly after boot up, but this was rare (3 out of approx. 20 boot processes) and seemed completely at random. Nothing different when booting in 'recovery mode'.) The mouse pointer could, however, be reproducably restored by going to 'standby' for just a moment (pressing the Fn+'Sleep'-keys on the keyboard). After going to standy, the mouse pointer stays visible until the next reboot of the system, even logging out or when killing the xserver with Ctrl-Alt-Back. Later we found out that video playback is affected, too. Whenever playing a video file (tested ogg, mp4 and flv on Gnome Video Player and MPlayer), the desktop would freeze. The mouse could still be moved, there was HDD activity and MPlayer even plays sound (but no video), but otherwise the desktop is frozen: Nothing can be clicked, no progress in the system monitor panel applet, etc. Pressing Ctrl-Alt-Back would not work, either (either no effect at all, or sending one just to a black screen). The computer has to shut down hard and restarted. (This was definitely _not_ a codex problem, as it affected video files I know for certain I already played some days before the Kernel update. Also, the Gnome Thumbnailer can create thumbnails for the video files in question.) After downgrading 'linux-base' and 'linux-image-2.6.32-5-686' back from version 2.6.32-31 (squeeze-proposed-updates) to 2.6.32-30 (stable) and restarting the system, the mouse pointer was visible again right from the beginning (i.e. the login screen) and video playback worked again, as well. I am running Debian Squeeze Stable on a Asus M2400N Laptop (from mid 2003) with Intel 855 graphics. I have to boot with the 'nolapic' option and have no 3D acceleration, but otherwise my system is running fine again, after downgrading the kernel. A full discussion of the bug (in german) can be found here: http://debianforum.de/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2t=127853p=818591 -- Package-specific info: ** Version: Linux version 2.6.32-5-686 (Debian 2.6.32-30) (b...@decadent.org.uk) (gcc version 4.3.5 (Debian 4.3.5-4) ) #1 SMP Wed Jan 12 04:01:41 UTC 2011 ** Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-686 root=UUID=1105efdb-e96b-4854-8cc2-f082625f103f ro nolapic quiet ** Not tainted ** Kernel log: [4.324367] input: Asus Laptop extra buttons as /devices/virtual/input/input6 [4.324468] Registered led device: asus::mail [4.444267] NET: Registered protocol family 23 [4.456379] intel_rng: FWH not detected [4.620683] i801_smbus :00:1f.3: PCI INT B - Link[LNKB] - GSI 5 (level, low) - IRQ 5 [4.620692] ACPI: I/O resource :00:1f.3 [0xe800-0xe81f] conflicts with ACPI region SMB0 [0xe800-0xe80f] [4.620787] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver [4.624887] parport_pc 00:0c: reported by Plug and Play ACPI [4.624979] parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP] [4.626590] lib80211: common routines for IEEE802.11 drivers [4.626594] lib80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL' [4.698976] ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.13 [4.698981] ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation jketr...@linux.intel.com [4.722004] nsc-ircc, chip-init [4.722016] nsc-ircc, Found chip at base=0x02e [4.722039] nsc-ircc, driver loaded (Dag Brattli) [4.722240] nsc_ircc_open(), can't get iobase of 0x2f8 [4.722267] nsc-ircc, Found chip at base=0x02e [4.722290] nsc-ircc, driver loaded (Dag Brattli) [4.722295] nsc_ircc_open(), can't get iobase of 0x2f8 [4.722995] nsc-ircc 00:0a: disabled [4.817682] input: PC Speaker as /devices/platform/pcspkr/input/input7 [4.847383] ipw2100: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Driver, git-1.2.2 [4.847388] ipw2100: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation [4.848397] ipw2100 :01:05.0: PCI INT A - Link[LNKC] - GSI 5 (level, low) - IRQ 5 [4.849045] ipw2100: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Connection [4.849069] ipw2100 :01:05.0: firmware: requesting ipw2100-1.3.fw [5.236198] yenta_cardbus :01:03.0: CardBus bridge found [1043:1754] [5.289322] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810 [5.384643] Intel ICH Modem :00:1f.6: PCI INT B - Link[LNKB] - GSI 5 (level, low) - IRQ 5 [5.384669] Intel ICH Modem :00:1f.6: setting latency timer to 64 [5.388772] yenta_cardbus
