[Bug 50243] Re: External monitor on intel 945GM/Dell D620 (and D420) causes lockup.

2008-02-09 Thread apease
I'm having problems with the intel 950 chipset and "intel experimental modesetting driver" on Ubuntu 7.10 on a Toshiba A205-S4777 laptop. The graphics quality is poor both on the laptop monitor and external monitor. It almost looks like the resolution or sync rate isn't set properly for each - "1

[Bug 50243] Re: External monitor on intel 945GM/Dell D620 (and D420) causes lockup.

2007-11-16 Thread unggnu
I am closing this bug because it seems to be fixed. Feel free to open it again if the issue still happens with Gutsy Gibbon and the new Intel driver. @charles.figura Your new problem seems to be already reported under Bug #144225. ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-i810 (Ubuntu) Status: Inc

[Bug 50243] Re: External monitor on intel 945GM/Dell D620 (and D420) causes lockup.

2007-10-29 Thread charles.figura
Peter - I've tried both of your suggestions, and there is no effect - Fn-F8 does not function at all. -- External monitor on intel 945GM/Dell D620 (and D420) causes lockup. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/50243 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 50243] Re: External monitor on intel 945GM/Dell D620 (and D420) causes lockup.

2007-10-29 Thread cbourbou
Did some testing with xrandr - this stuff works! With a beamer attached, I can control on/off and resolution using: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xrandr --output VGA --off [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xrandr --output VGA --mode 1024x768 And it doesn't even need root levelThe notebook's LCD can even run on a d

[Bug 50243] Re: External monitor on intel 945GM/Dell D620 (and D420) causes lockup.

2007-10-29 Thread cbourbou
7.10: Changed the driver from 'i810' to 'intel': I was not able to use the GUI "Admin>Screens and Graphics" which would always revert back to i810. Therefore I rebuild the xorg settings using "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg", where I was able to select the intel driver and resolutions. Then I ho

[Bug 50243] Re: External monitor on intel 945GM/Dell D620 (and D420) causes lockup.

2007-10-29 Thread Peter Clifton
Charles, a further point.. With the "intel" driver, the expected behaviour of a video button event is to activate and setup all displays which are detected as being connected. If the external monitor isn't powered up, you may so no change at all. -- External monitor on intel 945GM/Dell D620 (and

[Bug 50243] Re: External monitor on intel 945GM/Dell D620 (and D420) causes lockup.

2007-10-29 Thread Peter Clifton
charles, With the setup you had (Gutsy+Intel driver) not working with the FN+F8 key combination, does it change behaviour if you: echo 0 | sudo tee /sys/module/video/parameters/no_automatic_changes Does it change behvaiour if you remove the ACPI video module?: sudo rmmod video -- External moni

Re: [Bug 50243] Re: External monitor on intel 945GM/Dell D620 (and D420) causes lockup.

2007-10-29 Thread cbourbou
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 2:43:33 PM Subject: [Bug 50243] Re: External monitor on intel 945GM/Dell D620 (and D420) causes lockup. I wish I could tell. When I use the intel driver under gutsy, my crt/lcd switch (Fn-F8) doesn't work AT ALL. I can't switch to the e

[Bug 50243] Re: External monitor on intel 945GM/Dell D620 (and D420) causes lockup.

2007-10-29 Thread charles.figura
I wish I could tell. When I use the intel driver under gutsy, my crt/lcd switch (Fn-F8) doesn't work AT ALL. I can't switch to the external monitor/projector at all. So, no, it's much, much worse. -- External monitor on intel 945GM/Dell D620 (and D420) causes lockup. https://bugs.launchpad.net

[Bug 50243] Re: External monitor on intel 945GM/Dell D620 (and D420) causes lockup.

2007-10-28 Thread unggnu
Could you please recheck it with Gutsy Final Live CD? In Gutsy i810 driver is deprecated and intel driver is used instead. ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-driver-i810 (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-i810 (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Incomplete -- Ext

[Bug 50243] Re: External monitor on intel 945GM/Dell D620 (and D420) causes lockup.

2007-10-20 Thread cbourbou
Had this problem with Ubuntu 7.04, hoped it would be gone with 7.10. Alas, while testing with a beamer yesterday, my Dell Latitude D620 twice stopped after the second cycle-through with F8...I'm often running customer presentations requiring a beamer and I had to use Windows (argh) because of this

[Bug 50243] Re: External monitor on intel 945GM/Dell D620 (and D420) causes lockup.

2007-06-07 Thread Jérôme Guelfucci
Ok, I'm marking this as confirmed. The problem is that the patch will break something in other laptop (cf upstream bug). ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-i810 (Ubuntu) Status: Needs Info => Confirmed ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-i810 (Ubuntu Edgy) Status: Unconfirmed => Reject

[Bug 50243] Re: External monitor on intel 945GM/Dell D620 (and D420) causes lockup.

2007-06-06 Thread charles.figura
The raw install of Feisty still exhibited the same problem. I applied Paolo's/Allee's patch above, and it now works without difficulty. -- External monitor on intel 945GM/Dell D620 (and D420) causes lockup. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/50243 You received this bug notification because you are

[Bug 50243] Re: External monitor on intel 945GM/Dell D620 (and D420) causes lockup.

2007-06-06 Thread Jérôme Guelfucci
Ok, thank you for answering. -- External monitor on intel 945GM/Dell D620 (and D420) causes lockup. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/50243 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@list

Re: [Bug 50243] Re: External monitor on intel 945GM/Dell D620 (and D420) causes lockup.

2007-06-06 Thread Nuno Cardoso
Hello, I'll let you know as soon as I test it. I'm sorry, I have a deadline at the end of the week, but I'll try on my Feisty @ D620, OK? Jérôme Guelfucci wrote: > Thank you for your bug report. Do you still have this issue with the > latest release of Ubuntu ? > > ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-vi

[Bug 50243] Re: External monitor on intel 945GM/Dell D620 (and D420) causes lockup.

2007-06-06 Thread Jérôme Guelfucci
Thank you for your bug report. Do you still have this issue with the latest release of Ubuntu ? ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-i810 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info -- External monitor on intel 945GM/Dell D620 (and D420) causes lockup. https

[Bug 50243] Re: External monitor on intel 945GM/Dell D620 (and D420) causes lockup.

2007-03-09 Thread Timo Aaltonen
closing bogus component. ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-driver-i810 (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: xserver-xorg-driver-i810 => xorg Status: Needs Info => Rejected -- External monitor on intel 945GM/Dell D620 (and D420) causes lockup. https://launchpad.net/bugs/50243 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing lis

[Bug 50243] Re: External monitor on intel 945GM/Dell D620 (and D420) causes lockup.

2007-02-16 Thread Nuno Cardoso
Ok, i resolved this, but the problem is that I can control, the flicker and resolution of the external monitor. The image is always off-set and trembling... but I have faith on you. Is it a bug or just a bad configuration? I tried xorg.conf but I'm afraid it just doest't pay attention to the resolu

[Bug 50243] Re: External monitor on intel 945GM/Dell D620 (and D420) causes lockup.

2007-01-31 Thread Nuno Cardoso
I don't know why, but now my fn-f8 does not work. It doesn't do anything. I guess that my updates must have did that. Now I can't even output nothing at an external VGA. What is going on? -- External monitor on intel 945GM/Dell D620 (and D420) causes lockup. https://launchpad.net/bugs/50243 --

[Bug 50243] Re: External monitor on intel 945GM/Dell D620 (and D420) causes lockup.

2007-01-23 Thread tully.foote
I just want to mention that this is still a problem for me using 2.6.17-10 Edgy standard install. My hardware is a Dell 640m. Though I can sort of recover by restarting X with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. -- External monitor on intel 945GM/Dell D620 (and D420) causes lockup. https://launchpad.net/bugs/5

[Bug 50243] Re: External monitor on intel 945GM/Dell D620 (and D420) causes lockup.

2006-12-24 Thread DaveThacker
Charles and all. I found this bug while doing some triaging. I'm going to check the progress of the upstream bug and then figure out what the next status is. Sorry for the delay in getting it confirmed. Dave ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-driver-i810 (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Da

[Bug 50243] Re: External monitor on intel 945GM/Dell D620 (and D420) causes lockup.

2006-12-09 Thread Paolo Meschi
I wrote a better patch and I sent bug report to the xorg bugzilla... The new patch: http://www.paolomeschi.com/patches/xf86-video-i810/xf86-video-i810-1.7.2-945gm-crash.patch The bug report: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9290 -- External monitor on intel 945GM/Dell D620 (and D420)

[Bug 50243] Re: External monitor on intel 945GM/Dell D620 (and D420) causes lockup.

2006-12-08 Thread allee
Oh, here the debdiff ** Attachment added: "debdiff for paolo's crt-switch-fix.diff" http://librarian.launchpad.net/5332971/xserver-xorg-video-i810_1.6.5-0ubuntu3%2Bcrt-switch-fix.diff -- External monitor on intel 945GM/Dell D620 (and D420) causes lockup. https://launchpad.net/bugs/50243 --

[Bug 50243] Re: External monitor on intel 945GM/Dell D620 (and D420) causes lockup.

2006-12-06 Thread allee
Tried the patch from Paolo and it works great with the Dell D420 (intel 945GM gfx) on Edgy. Thx a lot Paolo!! FWIW I attach Paolos patch as debdiff, so it's a bit easier to update the edgy pkg sources. Paolo: can you elaborate how dirty your fix is? Is it from your POV clean enough to be includ