Comment 10 for bug 605124

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-intel

I just installed Maverick on a partition yesterday. Sometimes (i.e. 2 out of 5 or 6 times so far) when booting with an external monitor attached I get a "no screens" error in the log and get xorg in low-graphics mode. I haven't seen this so far when booting without an external monitor, but I haven't tried many times yet. I booted with kernel option drm.debug=0x04 so there should be verbose mode setting information in the dmesg output.

:0.log says:

(EE) intel(0): [drm] failed to set drm interface version.
(EE) intel(0): Failed to become DRM master.
[...]
DRM_IOCTL_I915_GEM_APERTURE failed: Bad file descriptor
Assuming 131072kB available aperture size.
May lead to reduced performance or incorrect rendering.
get chip id failed: -1 [9]
param: 4, val: 0
(EE) intel(0): failed to get resources: Bad file descriptor
(EE) intel(0): Kernel modesetting setup failed
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

Fatal server error:
no screens found

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: xorg 1:7.5+6ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-7.12-generic 2.6.35-rc4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-7-generic i686
Architecture: i386
DRM.card0.LVDS.1:
 status: connected
 enabled: enabled
 dpms: On
 modes: 1400x1050 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 640x480
 edid-base64: AP///////wAwrgVAAAAAAAAQAQOAGRJ46q9AlVZKjyUgUFQhCACBgAEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBICF4yFAaCkAUdCUA9bgAAAAZAAAAEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADwCQQzIAAAATAgAJ5QAAAAAA/gBIVjEyMVAwMS0xMDEKAHU=
DRM.card0.VGA.1:
 status: connected
 enabled: enabled
 dpms: On
 modes: 1920x1200 1600x1200 1680x1050 1280x1024 1440x900 1280x960 1280x800 1024x768 800x600 800x600 640x480
 edid-base64: AP///////wBMLYYFNDJZTS4TAQMONCB4Ku6Ro1RMmSYPUFQjCACpQIGAgUCBAJUAswABAQEBKDyAoHCwI0AwIDYABkQhAAAaAAAA/QA4PB5REQAKICAgICAgAAAA/ABTeW5jTWFzdGVyCiAgAAAA/wBIOVhTQjA2MjMzCiAgAAU=
Date: Tue Jul 13 19:35:12 2010
DkmsStatus: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha i386 (20100630.2)
MachineType: LENOVO 7764CTO
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-7-generic root=UUID=460f28a3-969c-409a-ab57-6070e2c7288e ro quiet splash drm.debug=0x04
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
XorgConf:

dmi.bios.date: 11/27/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: 7SET36WW (1.22 )
dmi.board.name: 7764CTO
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr7SET36WW(1.22):bd11/27/2008:svnLENOVO:pn7764CTO:pvrThinkPadX61Tablet:rvnLENOVO:rn7764CTO:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 7764CTO
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad X61 Tablet
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO
glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 codename: maverick
 architecture: i686
 kernel: 2.6.35-7-generic