After todays updates: Black Screen, no X

[VMC]

I feared this at some point. I have a Intel i865 integrated video.

I think the problems lays here, at xserver core:

$ aptitude show xserver-xorg-core
Package: xserver-xorg-core
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 2:1.7.3.902-1ubuntu4

My Kubuntu 10.04 had updates as well with the same Xorg updates to beo applied. I didn't update Kubuntu. Here's Kubuntu xserver core:
$ aptitude show xserver-xorg-core
Package: xserver-xorg-core
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 2:1.7.3.902-1ubuntu2

I can boot ok only with a "nomodeset". I haven't had to do this since Jaunty days.

Anyone else with i865 or similar Intel chip having difficulties?

Thanks.

[Starks]

Same here, but I think my X got thrashed by xorg-edgers and a faulty pre-removal script.

[Eddie Hung]

A me three here. Tried downgrading using my cached debs (downgraded xserver-common and core, and some other mesa stuff that was also upgraded at the same time; also tried going back down to the -9 kernel) but I still see graphics corruption in X, followed by an eventual crash unless I VT-switch to shell.
Intel DG45FC with X4500HD on AMD64 here.

Eddie

[collinp]

Open a terminal, have a look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log using your text editor of choice after you boot, and see if you see any funky errors.

[Eddie Hung]

No errors under Xorg, but there was an error under dmesg.
Even when re-using the -9 kernel which was working before the upgrade today, I see this:

[drm:i915_hangcheck_elapsed] *ERROR* Hangcheck timer elapsed... GPU hung
[drm:i915_hangcheck_elapsed] *ERROR* i915_wait_request returns -5 (awaiting 32 at 31)

Contrary to the first post, X does work for me, but there's corruption on the top edge and after a minute of use, then crashes.

Adding nomodeset to the kernel command line seems to have temp-fixed it for me.

Eddie

[DragonlordP]

Similar problems here, on an MSI Wind U100+: I had the top edge corruption yesterday, today the image occasionally "jumps" a few cm to the left and it's also gone black 3 times so far (closed the lid to suspend to fix it).

[DragonlordP]

Just went white, this is so much fun

[VMC]

Todays updates fixed my problem on i856. Namely xserver-xorg-core:

$ aptitude show xserver-xorg-core
Package: xserver-xorg-core
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 2:1.7.3.902-1ubuntu5

[KrazyPenguin]

I feared this at some point. I have a Intel i865 integrated video.

I think the problems lays here, at xserver core:

$ aptitude show xserver-xorg-core
Package: xserver-xorg-core
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 2:1.7.3.902-1ubuntu4

My Kubuntu 10.04 had updates as well with the same Xorg updates to beo applied. I didn't update Kubuntu. Here's Kubuntu xserver core:
$ aptitude show xserver-xorg-core
Package: xserver-xorg-core
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 2:1.7.3.902-1ubuntu2

I can boot ok only with a "nomodeset". I haven't had to do this since Jaunty days.

Anyone else with i865 or similar Intel chip having difficulties?

Thanks.

Yes adding "nomodeset" worked for me.
Today's updates fixed the problem, i removed nomodeset and rebooted and everything was fine.
Thanks for the tip!!!!

[Ibidem]

I had that problem with a 945 chip (I updated a few minutes before the problem was posted), and same as everyone else, today's update fixed it.
The troublemaker may have been x11-common or xserver-xorg-core. I think I'll try to save the latest versions locally & check cache for the old ones.
Sounds like it was X itself, not a driver issue.
Ibidem