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kayrune

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Registered: 2007-12-15

Posts: 43

X only gives black screen with intel driver

I have a G35 intel chipset (X3500) and cannot get X working with the intel driver, and I have a hard time finding a howto. I'm using the HDMI output and it works fine in the console, but when X starts I only get a black screen and no mouse pointer.

If I use vesa driver in xorg it works (although wrong resolution)

I've tried options such as (I had a theory it was outputting to the vga port) :

    Option      "monitor-TMDS-1"   "Monitor0"
    Option      "MonitorLayout" "DFP"
    Option      "Clone" "DFP"

but it had no effect.

related module that get loaded are  "intel_agp"

I've tried modprobing drm and i915 but this has no effect.

Any tips welcome !

bgc1954

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From: Edmonton, AB, Canada

Registered: 2006-03-14

Posts: 1,160

Re: X only gives black screen with intel driver

Not to be the bearer of bad news but apparently other distributions are having problems with xorg intel video driver and your particular chipset as well so it might take a little while till someone irons out the bugs.  Hopefully some brainiac out there might have a workaround to the problem.

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kayrune

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Registered: 2007-12-15

Posts: 43

Re: X only gives black screen with intel driver

Ah, yes, it seems I'm not alone, thanks for pointing me in the right direction

To sum up, with this G35 / X3500 based motherboard :

* HDMI connection to monitors works well
* VGA  connection to monitors works well
* DVI  connection to monitors works well under console and framebuffer
* DVI  connection to monitors works well under Windows
* DVI  connection to monitors works well under Xorg with the VESA driver
* DVI  connection to monitors does not work under Xorg with the Intel driver

http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13968

Last edited by kayrune (2008-03-08 15:42:37)