[i830] Unable to install with GUI on Fujitsu Lifebook C7651

Please attach your /var/log/Xorg.0.log and summarize the workaround (and your results in testing it).

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

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Hi etherdrone,

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with the latest development release of Ubuntu? (ISOs are available from cdimage.ubuntu.com)

If it remains an issue, could you also attach a new /var/log/Xorg.0.log?
Thanks in advance.

The output of lspci -vvnn would also be worth having.

From: Marc Brower <email address hidden>

Hi Bryce,

I downloaded the 12/3/08 Jaunty live CD and tried to run an install as well
as the live CD. With the Live CD, the GUI tries to boot up but the screen
settings seem to be incorrect and all I get are ghosting and blinking lines
on the screen. When I try to dump out to a terminal with Ctl-Alt-F1 etc, I
get a different set of ghosted lines, but no command line. When I try to
go back to GUI with ctl-alt-F6 It does a screen refresh but still does not
have a workable screen view.

I did the "install" option on the live CD and the end result was a command
line. I got the LSPCI output you requested, as well as the Xorg.0.log.
I've attached these to this email.

I'm running Ubuntu 6.06 (downloaded 6/12/06) on the same laptop without
trouble. The intel drivers work in that version. They started to change
after that.

Thanks.
Marc

Hi Marc,

The issue is that Intel has dropped support for i810, i815, i825, and i830 on their -intel driver. Unfortunately this means it is unlikely your issue will be fixed, unless a community person steps forward to work on the bug. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news on this. We'll leave the bug open just in case.

I believe I'm being bitten by this same bug after upgrading to 9.04 from 8.10

From the Mandriva bug this seems to be https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12059 which is reported fixed.

Attached my Xorg.0.log

To me this is happening on HP Pavilion N5495 (http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/product?lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&product=65163)

Attached the lspci -vvnn

The video problems is like the 3 quarters of the screen were all overlaid in the top-left quarter and all those mixed fill the whole LCD I can login and don't get dropped to a console at any point, but the video is unusable. Hope I made sense or I can try to snap a picture if that helps.

Using xserver-xorg-video-intel-2.4 (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReinhardTartler/X/RevertingIntelDriverTo2.4) I at least got video back on the laptop.

Bryce suggested to do a "git bisect" to pin down the patch that's causing the problem.

Here's the corruption I see with any of these versions.

alex-mayorga@pavilion-n5495:~$ apt-cache policy xserver-xorg-video-intel
xserver-xorg-video-intel:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 2:2.7.0-1ubuntu1~xup~1
  Version table:
     2:2.7.0-1ubuntu1~xup~1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2:2.6.3-0ubuntu9 0
        500 http://mx.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages

Alex, I notice your symptoms do not match to what the original reporter reported, nor is your hardware an exact match (same video chip, but different vendor), so I think two issues are being improperly conflated here.

It seems someone inadvertently reopened this bug after it had expired, but the requested information was never provided, so I am re-closing it.

Meanwhile, I've forwarded your bug upstream to be examined; it is at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21623 - please subscribe to that bug in case upstream needs more information or wishes you to test something. As I mentioned above, I don't think upstream gives too much attention to 830 chips, so you probably should continue with your bisection work, and provide your findings on the upstream bug so they can help in narrowing down the fix.

You may also want to open yourself a new bug in launchpad for us to keep track of this for Ubuntu. To do this, please run the command 'ubuntu-bug xserver-xorg-video-intel', and make mention of the upstream bug link in your description. This way if upstream produces a patch, we can incorporate it into Ubuntu for you.