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#1 2009-11-14 07:13:27

DrMikeDuke
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[Solved] Dell D400 Video issues

Hello,

I know this problem has come up a few times but still having trouble
About a year or so ago we had Arch running on my girlfriend's laptop.
However when I have come to reinstall it (insert long story here) it seems
support for her graphics card has dried up (about as fast as my patience for hotplugging)

Her laptop is a a Dell D400 (the Australian model with the 1.6GHz centrino and intel wireless - there is another dell d400 here:http://www.linlap.com/wiki/dell+latitude+d400 - this is not the same.)

Anyhow I'm running the latest Xorg, i have xf86-video-intel and hal, dbus and all those shenanigans installed

Alas no matter how hard I try (even as root) I am greeted only with a black screen and total system lockup.
I've been tinkering and searching the internet and testing and failing and rebooting again.. please someone save
her poor hard disk (and my brain) from another forced restart!!! : )

(would post logs but /var/log/Xorg.log.old is all that is there and is blank)

00:02.0 VGA Compatible controller:  Intel corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (Rev 2)

Last edited by DrMikeDuke (2009-11-15 03:25:15)


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#2 2009-11-14 10:18:48

DrMikeDuke
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Re: [Solved] Dell D400 Video issues

just a quick update: I have tried substituting the i810 driver and intel driver, same black dead screen (except in i810's case where it just falls on its face)


Workstation: Core i7 2600k | Asus PBZ68-V/GEN3 | 8GB DDR3-2000 | Gainward GLH GTX570 | Velociraptor 300 | AntecSS 850W | Essence ST | Corsair 800D | Win7x64 Pro/Arch LinuxX64
Server: 2x Six-Core AMD Opteron Processor 8439 SE, 64GB DDR2 ECC, Tyan S2932-SI, Areca ARC-1230 Raid, PCP&C 1Kw PSU, LSi FusionMPT Ultra320 SCSI/Tandberg LTO4 Autoloader
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#3 2009-11-14 14:48:07

MadTux
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Re: [Solved] Dell D400 Video issues

I have a Dell D400 1.6 GHz with Intel 855GM and also had problems after the upgrade to xorg-server 1.7. I enabled kernel mode setting according to the wiki article to solve the issues.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Int … Setting.29

I used the early start option. Then I rebuilt the initramfs by

mkinitcpio -p kernel26

and rebooted.

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#4 2009-11-14 15:03:40

DrMikeDuke
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Re: [Solved] Dell D400 Video issues

MadTux wrote:

I have a Dell D400 1.6 GHz with Intel 855GM and also had problems after the upgrade to xorg-server 1.7. I enabled kernel mode setting according to the wiki article to solve the issues.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Int … Setting.29

I used the early start option. Then I rebuilt the initramfs by

mkinitcpio -p kernel26

and rebooted.

thanks a lot for that, fixed the video issues. just got to get hotplugging keyboard+trackpad working now and she's good to go  smile


Workstation: Core i7 2600k | Asus PBZ68-V/GEN3 | 8GB DDR3-2000 | Gainward GLH GTX570 | Velociraptor 300 | AntecSS 850W | Essence ST | Corsair 800D | Win7x64 Pro/Arch LinuxX64
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#5 2009-11-14 15:26:07

MadTux
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Re: [Solved] Dell D400 Video issues

Use HAL and xf86-input-evdev and keyboard/trackpad should work. Just remember, HAL needs to be started before the desktop. Its best to put it into the daemon section of /etc/rc.conf.

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#6 2009-11-14 17:29:05

DrMikeDuke
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Re: [Solved] Dell D400 Video issues

MadTux wrote:

Use HAL and xf86-input-evdev and keyboard/trackpad should work. Just remember, HAL needs to be started before the desktop. Its best to put it into the daemon section of /etc/rc.conf.

yeah cheers, had that installed, turned out to be a corrupted package during download (a real pain since lots of files needed to be deleted by hand sad )

just a case now of fixing the horrible aliasing on the desktop, is intel driver accelerated?


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Server: 2x Six-Core AMD Opteron Processor 8439 SE, 64GB DDR2 ECC, Tyan S2932-SI, Areca ARC-1230 Raid, PCP&C 1Kw PSU, LSi FusionMPT Ultra320 SCSI/Tandberg LTO4 Autoloader
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#7 2009-11-14 17:42:20

MadTux
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Re: [Solved] Dell D400 Video issues

If you mean anti-aliasing for LCD panels, that works with the stock intel driver. In my experience, you don't even need xorg.conf. The new xorg-server does much of that stuff automatically.

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#8 2009-11-15 03:24:54

DrMikeDuke
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Re: [Solved] Dell D400 Video issues

well, i'll mark this as SOLVED now, and continue on trying to get the anti-aliasing to play nice:
no more blocks around all the screenlets!
(I reckon its because I'm not compositing? - that always solved things for me in the past)


Workstation: Core i7 2600k | Asus PBZ68-V/GEN3 | 8GB DDR3-2000 | Gainward GLH GTX570 | Velociraptor 300 | AntecSS 850W | Essence ST | Corsair 800D | Win7x64 Pro/Arch LinuxX64
Server: 2x Six-Core AMD Opteron Processor 8439 SE, 64GB DDR2 ECC, Tyan S2932-SI, Areca ARC-1230 Raid, PCP&C 1Kw PSU, LSi FusionMPT Ultra320 SCSI/Tandberg LTO4 Autoloader
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