Public bug reported: On Karmic the X-Server falls back to VESA mode. It has worked some updates before.
Xorg.0.log says: [...] (--) PCI:*(0...@0:2:0) Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller rev 3, Mem @ 0xb0080000/524288, 0xc0000000/268435456, 0xb0040000/262144, I/O @ 0x00001800/8 (II) Open ACPI successful (/var/run/acpid.socket) (II) System resource ranges: [0] -1 0 0xffffffff - 0xffffffff (0x1) MX[B] [1] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B] [2] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B] [3] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B] [4] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B] [5] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x00000000 (0x1) IX[B] [...] (II) LoadModule: "dri2" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libdri2.so (II) Module dri2: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 1.6.0, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 2.0 (II) Loading extension DRI2 (II) Scanning /usr/share/xserver-xorg/pci directory for additional PCI ID's supported by the drivers (II) No matches found for this device in /usr/share/xserver-xorg/pci (==) Registering 'vesa' as fallback (==) Matched vesa for the autoconfigured driver (==) Assigned the driver to the xf86ConfigLayout (II) LoadModule: "vesa" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//vesa_drv.so (II) Module vesa: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 1.6.0, module version = 2.2.0 Module class: X.Org Video Driver ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 5.0 (II) VESA: driver for VESA chipsets: vesa (II) Primary Device is: PCI 0...@00:02:0 (II) resource ranges after probing: [0] -1 0 0xffffffff - 0xffffffff (0x1) MX[B] [1] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B] [2] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B] [3] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B] [4] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B] [5] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x00000000 (0x1) IX[B] [...] (II) VESA(0): initializing int10 (II) VESA(0): Bad V_BIOS checksum (II) VESA(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000 (II) VESA(0): VESA BIOS detected (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE Version 3.0 (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE Total Mem: 7872 kB (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM: Intel(r) 82945GM Chipset Family Graphics Chip Accelerated VGA BIOS (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM Software Rev: 1.0 (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM Vendor: Intel Corporation (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM Product: Intel(r) 82945GM Chipset Family Graphics Controller (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM Product Rev: Hardware Version 0.0 (II) VESA(0): Creating default Display subsection in Screen section "Default Screen" for depth/fbbpp 24/32 (==) VESA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32 [...] ** Affects: xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: 945gm intel karmic x.org xorg ** Tags added: 945gm intel karmic x.org xorg -- Xorg falls back to VESA on intel hardware https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/379504 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-intel in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp