Opened 3 years ago
Last modified 3 years ago
#16661 new bug
Intel 915GM video mode switching leaves laptop with black screen with both native and VESA drivers.
| Reported by: | leppy232 | Owned by: | pulkomandy |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | Unscheduled |
| Component: | Drivers/Graphics/intel_extreme/9xx | Version: | R1/beta2 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Blocked By: | Blocking: | ||
| Platform: | x86 |
Description (last modified by )
The Intel driver bundled with Beta 2 works fine, if sluggishly and with some graphical glitches (due probably more to the age of the chip), but using a screen resolution besides the native 1024x768 leaves it with a blank screen--usually seen when using programs in full screen. In an effort to remedy this, I switched to the VESA driver with the keyboard shortcut, and it left me with the same blank screen. Trying to invoke the boot options menu leaves me with another blank screen. I can't get past this.
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Change History (9)
follow-up: 2 comment:1 by , 3 years ago
comment:2 by , 3 years ago
Replying to nephele:
switching to vesa with a keyboard shortcut, what do you mean by this?
Invoking the boot menu while booting should work fine since it's still in text mode then afaik, either holding shift or mashing space should bring it up. (and then you should be able to select failsafe graphics)
The shift-control-alt-escape combo documented here. https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/preferences/screen.html
It turns out safe mode did end up starting up after a very long time, but selecting failsafe graphics (which I imagine just loads the very same VESA driver I'm having issues with) nets me the exact same result as normal booting does.
follow-up: 4 comment:3 by , 3 years ago
One thing you could try is to delete /boot/home/config/settings/Screen_data and reboot.
comment:4 by , 3 years ago
Replying to shaka:
One thing you could try is to delete /boot/home/config/settings/Screen_data and reboot.
I tried that, but it didn't work. I booted into a Haiku USB and copied its known good Screen_data over to the install, I'll see if that works. It didn't, but I ended up solving it with what in hindsight ought to have been the obvious solution: just going into another workspace.
follow-up: 6 comment:5 by , 3 years ago
| Component: | Drivers/Graphics/VESA → Drivers/Graphics/intel_extreme/9xx |
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| Description: | modified (diff) |
| Owner: | changed from to |
| Summary: | VESA fallback driver leaves Intel 915GM laptop with black screen. → Intel 915GM video mode switching leaves laptop with black screen with both native and VESA drivers. |
There is some confusion here. The shift-control-alt-escape does not switch to the VESA driver. It just switches to a safe video mode (probably 1024x768 or 800x600 with 16bit or 256 colors? I could not find where this is implemented in the code...).
The "failsafe graphics driver" option in the boot menu does switch to the VESA driver, which is a completely different thing.
If you're having graphics glitches to start with, and both of the drivers fail in some way, it sounds a bit worrying. Are you sure the hardware is ok? Does it work with other OS?
For further investigation, please provide syslogs for the following situations (make sure to delete the syslog from /system/var/log/syslog between each test to have results for just oen boot in each):
- Booting with the failsafe graphics driver enabled
- Booting normally, then changing the video mode
by , 3 years ago
| Attachment: | syslog_Regular_640x480 added |
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Syslog for changing the video mode through GUI
comment:6 by , 3 years ago
Replying to pulkomandy:
There is some confusion here. The shift-control-alt-escape does not switch to the VESA driver. It just switches to a safe video mode (probably 1024x768 or 800x600 with 16bit or 256 colors? I could not find where this is implemented in the code...).
The "failsafe graphics driver" option in the boot menu does switch to the VESA driver, which is a completely different thing.
If you're having graphics glitches to start with, and both of the drivers fail in some way, it sounds a bit worrying. Are you sure the hardware is ok? Does it work with other OS?
For further investigation, please provide syslogs for the following situations (make sure to delete the syslog from /system/var/log/syslog between each test to have results for just oen boot in each):
- Booting with the failsafe graphics driver enabled
- Booting normally, then changing the video mode
Sorry for taking so long, I kinda forgot about this. I have three logs, one VESA and two different methods of changing the video mode (the normal way and the keyboard shortcut). VESA failsafe actually worked, I don't know why it failed on me that time. I'm guessing it tried to run at 800x600.
As for other OSes, Windows NT (both 3.51 and 5.x) run just fine with both their native drivers and custom ones (VBEMP and the native 915GM drivers resp.) and Linux is the same. Both handle multiple resolutions just fine. ReactOS doesn't, but that's just it not liking the chip, it's a known issue for it; it runs with generic VESA drivers but honestly pretty terribly. I haven't tried 9x, Rhapsody, Dano, or OS/2, but I feel like NT and Linux are enough to say that the chip itself is alright.
switching to vesa with a keyboard shortcut, what do you mean by this?
Invoking the boot menu while booting should work fine since it's still in text mode then afaik, either holding shift or mashing space should bring it up. (and then you should be able to select failsafe graphics)