ubuntu-x-swat team mailing list archive

[jpiesing <jon33040@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>1. Is it the external monitor, the laptop monitor or both that go white?
The LCD screen on the laptop.

>2. With which desktop environment does this happen? (kde, gnome, xfce, etc...)
> Does it happen with other desktop environment as well?
Gnome. I don't have any others installed. 

>3. Does the problem occur irrespective of whether you have the external monitor connected?
- no external monitor connected : White screen
- external monitor plugged in after GDM login page is shown but before login : external monitor never comes out of power saving mode
- external monitor plugged in then GDM restarted : white screen on both LCD and external monitor
 
>4. Why do you use the option "UseFBdev"? The log file says that it is ignored.
I''ve not edited the xorg.conf file by hand except to comment out the "virtual". This must have been added by one of the config or reconfig programs. I've removed it.

>5. What computer model do you have?
Dell Latitude D420

>6. Could you test if it is still a problem with the newer drivers (2.7.1) available from >https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/x-updates/ ? There are quite a few bug fixes in 
>that version, and we don't want to upstream bugs to the intel developers that they have 
>already fixed.

I'm not currently in a position to test this. I've got a partially installed package which won't complete installation and won't remove. I can't install anything at the moment (sigh).
I'm researching how to fix this. I'll try these drives once installation works again.

>7. Could you try to vary the maximum in your virtual setting to see where the problem occurs? 
>It is likely that it will work for 2048 and not work for 2049, since the driver behaviour changes at 
>that limit. Could you verify that this is the limit?
I've checked. 2049 shows the white screen. 2048 works.

-- 
[i945gm] virtual >2048 in xorg.conf causes blank white screen on login
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/379805
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X,
which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-intel in ubuntu.