Bug 310309

Summary:	Intel video 945GM/GMS with KMS enabled in kernel results in blank screen after boot and X problems
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	R. David Murray <rdmurray>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo X packagers <x11>
Status:	VERIFIED NEEDINFO
Severity:	major	CC:	rdmurray
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Description R. David Murray 2010-03-20 03:55:16 UTC

After upgrade to xf86-video-intel 2.10.0 required turning on KMS in kernel, I got a blank screen after reboot.  Logging in blind and starting X, my dual screen setup duplicated the output on the two screens instead of keeping them separate, and the resolution was reduced to 1023x768.  This was on 2.6.32-tuxonice-r1.  I found the following bug report that seemed relevant:

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14947

However, I tried downgrading to 2.6.31-tuxonice, but the behavior was unchanged.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.enable KMS per the instructions in the xf86-video-intel 2.10.0 note
2.reboot
3.

Actual Results:  
After boot process starts, screen goes blank and remains blank.  Logging in blind it is possible to start X, but the screen resolution is wrong and the dual screen setup does not work correctly.

Expected Results:  
Screen remains active, X works normally.

lspci shows:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)

Comment 1 R. David Murray 2010-03-20 22:14:17 UTC

I have another machine with an Intel video card:

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82G965 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)

that shows the same blank-screen symptom on boot.  It is running kernel 2.6.33:

Linux maestro 2.6.33-gentoo #2 SMP PREEMPT Sat Mar 20 17:55:48 EDT 2010 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

If I log in blind on this machine (which has only one screen), X works fine.

Comment 2 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-03-23 23:15:32 UTC

This is beyond my knowledge of the driver. Please file a bug upstream [1] and paste the URL here so I can track the bug too.

Thanks

[1] http://intellinuxgraphics.org/how_to_report_bug.html

Comment 3 R. David Murray 2010-05-14 14:05:45 UTC

I found the answer in a thread on the arch linux forum.  It turns out that you have to remove any 'video=' parameters from the kernel boot line, and then everything works fine.  And my X problem turned out to be that the names of the devices had changed, and so my script that sets up my dual screen wasn't doing anything any more because it was using the wrong names.