Re: i830 driver still not reserving memory (4.3.0-5)
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 05:35:39PM +0100, Christian Guggenberger wrote: On 16.03.2004 17:15 Mark Zimmerman wrote: On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 11:59:05PM +0100, Christian Guggenberger wrote: On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 16:44, Mark Zimmerman wrote: Greetings: I am running a mixed testing/unstable setup on a Dell system with the Intel 865G onboard graphics device. I installed the latest Xfree86 packages 4.3.0-5 and everything works fine with one exception: I still need to run the 865patch program to reserve video memory prior to starting the X server. The changelog comments in xserver-xfree86 indicate that this should no longer be the case. I'm not sure, if even XFree86 4.4 can work around all broken Dell Bioses... Well you could give it try: Basically, it should be sufficient to replace the following files (make a backup of the old ones) /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.a /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/i810_drv.o with those found at http://www.xfree86.org/~alanh/drivers/x86/ See, if it works better then... - Christian Good news and bad news: It looks like it is reserving memory properly. The old log showed this: (--) I810(0): Maximum space available for video modes: 832 kByte and the new log shows this: (--) I810(0): Maximum space available for video modes: 32576 kByte However, the X server fails to start. Here is what I see on the console: giving up. xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. I'm busy right now, but I could check (actually not check, just merge into 4.3.0-5) all changes from HEAD's i810 driver within a week, or so, and build some homebrew debian packages. I'll drop you a note, when I'm finished - maybe it would work then. - Christian I have tried a few more experiments, with discouraging results: 1. I downloaded the files (noted above) from xfree86.org and tried them. No luck. 2. I tried various combinations of these with the ones from ~alanh. No luck. 3. I went back to all of the ones from ~alanh and was unable to reproduce the partial success. 4. I installed the latest OpenBSD snapshot which includes driver updates as recent as a week ago. No luck. My bios revision is A03; this is the latest version available from Dell. Perhaps older ones are better (less bad?) but I have no access to them. In any event, it may not be the best use of your time to think too much about this. I'm just wondering: if this is working on a Dell machine of yours, how is yours different? -- Mark
Re: i830 driver still not reserving memory (4.3.0-5)
On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 18:03, Mark Zimmerman wrote: On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 05:35:39PM +0100, Christian Guggenberger wrote: On 16.03.2004 17:15 Mark Zimmerman wrote: On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 11:59:05PM +0100, Christian Guggenberger wrote: On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 16:44, Mark Zimmerman wrote: Greetings: I am running a mixed testing/unstable setup on a Dell system with the Intel 865G onboard graphics device. I installed the latest Xfree86 packages 4.3.0-5 and everything works fine with one exception: I still need to run the 865patch program to reserve video memory prior to starting the X server. The changelog comments in xserver-xfree86 indicate that this should no longer be the case. I'm not sure, if even XFree86 4.4 can work around all broken Dell Bioses... Well you could give it try: Basically, it should be sufficient to replace the following files (make a backup of the old ones) /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.a /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/i810_drv.o with those found at http://www.xfree86.org/~alanh/drivers/x86/ See, if it works better then... - Christian Good news and bad news: It looks like it is reserving memory properly. The old log showed this: (--) I810(0): Maximum space available for video modes: 832 kByte and the new log shows this: (--) I810(0): Maximum space available for video modes: 32576 kByte However, the X server fails to start. Here is what I see on the console: giving up. xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. I'm busy right now, but I could check (actually not check, just merge into 4.3.0-5) all changes from HEAD's i810 driver within a week, or so, and build some homebrew debian packages. I'll drop you a note, when I'm finished - maybe it would work then. - Christian I have tried a few more experiments, with discouraging results: 1. I downloaded the files (noted above) from xfree86.org and tried them. No luck. 2. I tried various combinations of these with the ones from ~alanh. No luck. 3. I went back to all of the ones from ~alanh and was unable to reproduce the partial success. 4. I installed the latest OpenBSD snapshot which includes driver updates as recent as a week ago. No luck. My bios revision is A03; this is the latest version available from Dell. Perhaps older ones are better (less bad?) but I have no access to them. Hi Mark. I did some further tests on our Dell Optiplex GX270 Systems. To sum up: a) Neither XFree4.4 nor debian's 4.3.0-7 is able to work on the GX270 if BIOS a03 is used - it would only work with the help of 865patch program by C. Zietz. b) Dowgrading the BIOS to a02 _and_ setting it's BIOS VideoBuffer Option to 8MB helps. (with both 4.4 and 4.3.0-7) The Bios image's called gx270a02.exe - go grab it from dell's ftp server (in subdir 'bios'), if you have a GX270, of course. I've heard rumours that some GX270 refuse to downgrade to a02 - don't force it, it might destroy your Bios completely. cheers. Christian
Re: i830 driver still not reserving memory (4.3.0-5) - FIXED
On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 08:30:34PM +0100, Christian Guggenberger wrote: On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 18:03, Mark Zimmerman wrote: On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 05:35:39PM +0100, Christian Guggenberger wrote: On 16.03.2004 17:15 Mark Zimmerman wrote: On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 11:59:05PM +0100, Christian Guggenberger wrote: On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 16:44, Mark Zimmerman wrote: Greetings: I am running a mixed testing/unstable setup on a Dell system with the Intel 865G onboard graphics device. I installed the latest Xfree86 packages 4.3.0-5 and everything works fine with one exception: I still need to run the 865patch program to reserve video memory prior to starting the X server. The changelog comments in xserver-xfree86 indicate that this should no longer be the case. I'm not sure, if even XFree86 4.4 can work around all broken Dell Bioses... Well you could give it try: Basically, it should be sufficient to replace the following files (make a backup of the old ones) /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.a /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/i810_drv.o with those found at http://www.xfree86.org/~alanh/drivers/x86/ See, if it works better then... - Christian Good news and bad news: It looks like it is reserving memory properly. The old log showed this: (--) I810(0): Maximum space available for video modes: 832 kByte and the new log shows this: (--) I810(0): Maximum space available for video modes: 32576 kByte However, the X server fails to start. Here is what I see on the console: giving up. xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. I'm busy right now, but I could check (actually not check, just merge into 4.3.0-5) all changes from HEAD's i810 driver within a week, or so, and build some homebrew debian packages. I'll drop you a note, when I'm finished - maybe it would work then. - Christian I have tried a few more experiments, with discouraging results: 1. I downloaded the files (noted above) from xfree86.org and tried them. No luck. 2. I tried various combinations of these with the ones from ~alanh. No luck. 3. I went back to all of the ones from ~alanh and was unable to reproduce the partial success. 4. I installed the latest OpenBSD snapshot which includes driver updates as recent as a week ago. No luck. My bios revision is A03; this is the latest version available from Dell. Perhaps older ones are better (less bad?) but I have no access to them. Hi Mark. I did some further tests on our Dell Optiplex GX270 Systems. To sum up: a) Neither XFree4.4 nor debian's 4.3.0-7 is able to work on the GX270 if BIOS a03 is used - it would only work with the help of 865patch program by C. Zietz. b) Dowgrading the BIOS to a02 _and_ setting it's BIOS VideoBuffer Option to 8MB helps. (with both 4.4 and 4.3.0-7) The Bios image's called gx270a02.exe - go grab it from dell's ftp server (in subdir 'bios'), if you have a GX270, of course. I've heard rumours that some GX270 refuse to downgrade to a02 - don't force it, it might destroy your Bios completely. Downgrading to A02 fixed everything -- both debian 4.3.0-7 and OpenBSD 4.4. Thanks for the insight. -- Mark
Re: i830 driver still not reserving memory (4.3.0-5)
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 11:59:05PM +0100, Christian Guggenberger wrote: On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 16:44, Mark Zimmerman wrote: Greetings: I am running a mixed testing/unstable setup on a Dell system with the Intel 865G onboard graphics device. I installed the latest Xfree86 packages 4.3.0-5 and everything works fine with one exception: I still need to run the 865patch program to reserve video memory prior to starting the X server. The changelog comments in xserver-xfree86 incicate that this should no longer be the case. I'm not sure, if even XFree86 4.4 can work around all broken Dell Bioses... Well you could give it try: Basically, it should be sufficient to replace the following files (make a backup of the old ones) /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.a /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/i810_drv.o with those found at http://www.xfree86.org/~alanh/drivers/x86/ See, if it works better then... - Christian Good news and bad news: It looks like it is reserving memory properly. The old log showed this: (--) I810(0): Maximum space available for video modes: 832 kByte and the new log shows this: (--) I810(0): Maximum space available for video modes: 32576 kByte However, the X server fails to start. Here is what I see on the console: giving up. xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. There is no indication in the log about the reason for the failure. There may be something wrong with the XFree86 file I downloaded (re-downloading made no difference). I was looking for missing library dependencies but ldd fails: alien$ ldd ./XFree86 ldd: /lib/ld-linux.so.2 exited with unknown exit code (135) ldd works fine on the original XFree86: alien$ ldd /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 libz.so.1 = /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x4001f000) libm.so.6 = /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0x4003) libdl.so.2 = /lib/tls/libdl.so.2 (0x40054000) libc.so.6 = /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x40057000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 = /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4000) -- Mark
Re: i830 driver still not reserving memory (4.3.0-5)
On 16.03.2004 17:15 Mark Zimmerman wrote: On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 11:59:05PM +0100, Christian Guggenberger wrote: On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 16:44, Mark Zimmerman wrote: Greetings: I am running a mixed testing/unstable setup on a Dell system with the Intel 865G onboard graphics device. I installed the latest Xfree86 packages 4.3.0-5 and everything works fine with one exception: I still need to run the 865patch program to reserve video memory prior to starting the X server. The changelog comments in xserver-xfree86 incicate that this should no longer be the case. I'm not sure, if even XFree86 4.4 can work around all broken Dell Bioses... Well you could give it try: Basically, it should be sufficient to replace the following files (make a backup of the old ones) /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.a /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/i810_drv.o with those found at http://www.xfree86.org/~alanh/drivers/x86/ See, if it works better then... - Christian Good news and bad news: It looks like it is reserving memory properly. The old log showed this: (--) I810(0): Maximum space available for video modes: 832 kByte and the new log shows this: (--) I810(0): Maximum space available for video modes: 32576 kByte However, the X server fails to start. Here is what I see on the console: giving up. xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. I'm busy right now, but I could check (actually not check, just merge into 4.3.0-5) all changes from HEAD's i810 driver within a week, or so, and build some homebrew debian packages. I'll drop you a note, when I'm finished - maybe it would work then. - Christian
i830 driver still not reserving memory (4.3.0-5)
Greetings: I am running a mixed testing/unstable setup on a Dell system with the Intel 865G onboard graphics device. I installed the latest Xfree86 packages 4.3.0-5 and everything works fine with one exception: I still need to run the 865patch program to reserve video memory prior to starting the X server. The changelog comments in xserver-xfree86 incicate that this should no longer be the case. Since no one else is complaining about this I am posting my config and log files in case someone can spot a misconfiguration before I submit a bug report. I am running kernel 2.6.3, here are some lines from dmesg: Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones agpgart: Detected an Intel 865 Chipset. agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 196M agpgart: Detected 892K stolen memory. agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xe800 [drm] Initialized i830 1.3.2 20021108 on minor 0 and lsmod: Module Size Used by ipv6 224000 10 i830 68120 2 intel_agp 17432 1 agpgart31820 3 intel_agp usb_storage29056 0 scsi_mod 75300 1 usb_storage uhci_hcd 30344 0 usbcore 100180 4 usb_storage,uhci_hcd e1000 80384 0 XF86Config-4 and XFree86.0.log are appended below. The log file is for a failed attempt; if anyone needs to see a successful log (after running 865patch) then let me know. -- Mark # XF86Config-4 (XFree86 X server configuration file) generated by dexconf, the # Debian X Configuration tool, using values from the debconf database. # # Edit this file with caution, and see the XF86Config-4 manual page. # (Type man XF86Config-4 at the shell prompt.) # # This file is automatically updated on xserver-xfree86 package upgrades *only* # if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xfree86 # package. # # If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated # again, run the following commands as root: # # cp /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.custom # md5sum /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /var/lib/xfree86/XF86Config-4.md5sum # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 Section Files FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc FontPath/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi # FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic # FontPath/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID EndSection Section Module LoadGLcore Loadbitmap Loaddbe Loadddc Loaddri Loadextmod Loadfreetype Loadglx Loadint10 Loadrecord Loadspeedo Loadtype1 Loadvbe EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Generic Keyboard Driver keyboard Option CoreKeyboard Option XkbRules xfree86 Option XkbModel pc104 Option XkbLayout us EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Configured Mouse Driver mouse Option CorePointer Option Device/dev/psaux Option Protocol ImPS/2 EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Generic Mouse Driver mouse Option SendCoreEventstrue Option Device/dev/input/mice Option Protocol ImPS/2 EndSection Section Device Identifier Intel Driver i810 VideoRam32768 EndSection Section Monitor Identifier Sun Monitor HorizSync 30-96 VertRefresh 48-160 Option DPMS EndSection Section Screen Identifier Default Screen Device Intel Monitor Sun Monitor DefaultDepth24 SubSection Display Depth 1 Modes 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 4 Modes 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 8 Modes 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 15 Modes 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 16 Modes 1280x1024
Re: i830 driver still not reserving memory (4.3.0-5)
On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 16:44, Mark Zimmerman wrote: Greetings: I am running a mixed testing/unstable setup on a Dell system with the Intel 865G onboard graphics device. I installed the latest Xfree86 packages 4.3.0-5 and everything works fine with one exception: I still need to run the 865patch program to reserve video memory prior to starting the X server. The changelog comments in xserver-xfree86 incicate that this should no longer be the case. I'm not sure, if even XFree86 4.4 can work around all broken Dell Bioses... Well you could give it try: Basically, it should be sufficient to replace the following files (make a backup of the old ones) /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.a /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/i810_drv.o with those found at http://www.xfree86.org/~alanh/drivers/x86/ See, if it works better then... - Christian
