Delay and black screen on ASRock G41M-LE

[sreym]

I have been installing 9.10 on motherboard ASRock G41M-LE. First, i got a 3 min delay while loading from LiveCD, then it shows glowing Ubuntu symbol and after a while - black screen. Nothing else happens after it and nothing works.

Same problem happens after installing alternate version.

Delay is after this message:

 
[    0.992981] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[    0.999846] i915 0000:00:02.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[    0.999896] i915 0000:00:02.0: setting latency timer to 64
[    1.004803] [drm:i915_driver_load] *ERROR* Detected broken video BIOS with 262140/262144kB of video memory stolen.
[    1.004874] [drm:i915_driver_load] *ERROR* Disabling GEM. (try reducing stolen memory or updating the BIOS to fix).
[    1.004953]   alloc irq_desc for 27 on node 0
[    1.004955]   alloc kstat_irqs on node 0
[    1.004962] i915 0000:00:02.0: irq 27 for MSI/MSI-X
[    1.004979] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
...
[    1.008928] ---[ end trace 10d579ba18744bf5 ]---

I tried to blacklist video, i915 - nothing worked.

Attached file contains logs.

Thank you in advance.

[kras1001]

I have the same Motherboard ASRock G41M-LE and the same problem. Video is Intel GMA X4500.
Updated BIOS to ver. 1.90 (last version): from here http://www.asrock.com/mb/download.as...=G41M-LE&o=All
Here is output from dmesg command:

kras@kras-desktop:~$ dmesg | grep drm
[ 1.138666] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[ 1.146944] [drm] MTRR allocation failed. Graphics performance may suffer.
[ 1.156980] [drm:i915_driver_load] *ERROR* Detected broken video BIOS with 262140/262144kB of video memory stolen.
[ 1.156982] [drm:i915_driver_load] *ERROR* Disabling GEM. (try reducing stolen memory or updating the BIOS to fix).
[ 1.157062] [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20080730 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 0

and

kras@kras-desktop:~$ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
(EE) Failed to load module "i810" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory
(EE) intel(0): [drm] Failed to detect GEM. Kernel 2.6.28 required.
(EE) intel(0): Failed to become DRM master.
(EE) intel(0): Failed to initialize kernel memory manager

and

kras@kras-desktop:~$ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep WW
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist.
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module i810
(WW) Falling back to old probe method for vesa
(WW) Falling back to old probe method for fbdev
(WW) intel(0): libpciaccess reported 0 rom size, guessing 64kB
(WW) intel(0): Register 0x61110 (PORT_HOTPLUG_EN) changed from 0x10000120 to 0x30000120
(WW) intel(0): Register 0x61114 (PORT_HOTPLUG_STAT) changed from 0x10000b00 to 0x30000b00
(WW) intel(0): DRI2: failed to open drm device
(WW) intel(0): drmSetMaster failed: Bad file descriptor

The only way to boot in X is whit this option in second row in GRUB - i915.modeset=0

HELP PLEASE

[sreym]

Ooops, I forgot that I'd upgrade BIOS too.

[sreym]

The only way to boot in X is whit this option in second row in GRUB - i915.modeset=0

And why it isn't suitable for you?

[kras1001]

And why it isn't suitable for you?

Because Video is very slow!
Everything refresh slowly, when minimize and maximize windows, and there is no 3D acceleration even i thing no anything graphical acceleration ... Sorry bad English... You know I mean!
In my language(Bulgarian) this call - shibana rabota!

[sreym]

Hmmm... May be problem could be solved by last driver for Intel cards (beta, alpha, even pre alpha). I will try it if find proper driver.

[kras1001]

Hmmm... May be problem could be solved by last driver for Intel cards (beta, alpha, even pre alpha). I will try it if find proper driver.

I think maybe in kernel 2.6.33 and intel video driver ver.2.10 this problem will be solve.
I use Archlinux with kernel 2.6.32 and xf86-video-intel 2.9.1-1 and have same problem. Maybe Ubuntu 9.10 solve this problem in next driver or Xorg update(I use Ubuntu 9.10 and ArchLinux - who will fix bug first?).
Please if you find decision of problem write me in e-mail: kras1001 __at__ mail.bg ( __at__ =@).

[kras1001]

I found a partial solution for problem.
In BIOS --> Advanced Screen --> PAVP Mode(Disabled) and Primary Graphics Adapter = Onboard and Share Memory = 128MB. Remove i915.modeset=0 from GRUB.
Try it and say is that work for you.
Sorry for my bad English!

[stitch]

Hi Kras1001, thanks it worked great for me

Ciao/Stitch

[drondron]

I found a partial solution for problem.
In BIOS --> Advanced Screen --> PAVP Mode(Disabled) and Primary Graphics Adapter = Onboard and Share Memory = 128MB. Remove i915.modeset=0 from GRUB.
Try it and say is that work for you.
Sorry for my bad English!

Thx, works fine on Asrock G41M-S. Can begin installation