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[Bug 1389904] Re: With the recent update to xserver-xorg-video-intel, system boots to a black screen

 

My problem with my i810 seems to be the same and the crude fix of
reinstalling the old version through sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-
video-intel=2:2.99.910-0ubuntu1 and pinning it with sudo apt-mark hold
xserver-xorg-video-intel=2:2.99.910-0ubuntu1 is working.

Let me tell you some background and guesswork why we have this problem.
Because I haven't taken notes and the i810 computer is not at hands I
might sound a bit fuzzy...

X11 itself is not enough for modern video output. You also need DRI,
GLX, MESA and others which are usually seperate from X11 and X11 low
level drivers but are still pretty low level themselves. Starting with
Ubuntu 14.04 the official DRI/GLX-drivers no longer support i810 (maybe
this problem is older but 12.04 definitly does not have the problem, not
sure if GLX or DRI, either libgl1-mesa-dri or libgl1-mesa-glx) . This in
return means you get no MESA/OpenGL and no accelerated video. This is an
Upstream-Decision outside Ubuntu and I was unable to find any
explanaition for this though it was hinted that a lack for DRI/GLX means
that i810 support itself might not live for much longer in Xorg.

So I guess now is the time where i810 not only loses OpenGL and
accelerated video upstream but is completely dropped from Xorg. Things
look hopeless, already when i810-GLX/DRI got dropped upstream sounded
totally uninterested in fixing it. Basically they suggested to compile
your drivers manually based on older sources. And they sounded
absolutely final on not fixing GLX/DRI.

This is a real pitty because I have several of these old, quiet, small
computers with i810 around and they worked perfectly good with 10.04. I
can only hope someone has the time to do a PPA with working DRI/GLX
/Xorg-Intel810.

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Title:
  With the recent update to xserver-xorg-video-intel, system boots to a
  black screen

Status in xserver-xorg-video-intel package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  The latest system updates for Lubuntu 14.04 includes an update to the
  i915 display driver, which this machine uses.

  After applying updates and rebooting, at the end of the boot process,
  where normally the login screen appears, the screen remains blank
  (with a black background color).

  That change has rendered my Lubuntu 14.04 partition completely
  unusable, even when booting earlier versions of the kernel.
  Regardless the kernel level booted, the system now boots to a blank
  screen.

  Because of this, I had to report the error on my UbuntuStudio 14.04
  partition, to which I have not yet applied updates.  So the level of
  the Intel i915 driver package in this error report is the version
  prior to the updated version that (probably) caused the problem.

  1. The release of ubuntu with the problem is Lubuntu 14.04.1, with a
  kernel version ending in ".39".

  2. The last working version of xserver-xorg-video-intel is
  2:2.99.910-0ubuntu1 I can't boot by Lubuntu partition anymore to tell
  you the version number that fails, but it is later than the indicated
  version.

  3. Prior to installing system updates, my Lubuntu 14.04.01 system
  worked fine, and I was able to boot it and perform my suite of tests
  (it's a test system).  After applying updates, it boots to a blank
  screen, and I cannot do anything with it.  I expected the login screen
  to appear, but it doesn't, and there is no error message.

  4. After applying system updates I expected my system to reboot
  normally, allowing me to login.  Instead, a blank screen is displayed,
  with no error message, and the login screen does not appear after many
  minutes of waiting.  If I hit the power button, it initiates shutdown.
  Hitting several keyboard characters (or typing my password to the
  blank screen) had no effect.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.910-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-32.57-lowlatency 3.13.11.4
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-32-lowlatency i686
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2
  Architecture: i386
  CurrentDesktop: XFCE
  Date: Wed Nov  5 16:13:54 2014
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-28 (191 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Studio 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release i386 (20140416.3)
  SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-video-intel
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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