Hi, we have some old dell optiplex 745 machines which have the Intel 965q chipset. The problem is, that they freeze as soon as the system tries to start the X system. It happens even before any log is written. This happens almost every time (for some reason it sometimes work, but 99% it fails). When i change the graphic driver in xorg.conf from intel to vesa it mostly works, but still i sometimes get a flickering screen, but this can mostly be resolved using ctrl+alt+backspace (sometimes you have to try this twice). We use the 1024x768 and 24 bit colors, so this shouldn't be the problem.
Does anyone know a fix for this problem?
Janez
On Monday 28 June 2010 12:58:36 Janez Kosmrlj wrote:
Hi, we have some old dell optiplex 745 machines which have the Intel 965q chipset. The problem is, that they freeze as soon as the system tries to start the X system. It happens even before any log is written. This happens almost every time (for some reason it sometimes work, but 99% it fails). When i change the graphic driver in xorg.conf from intel to vesa it mostly works, but still i sometimes get a flickering screen, but this can mostly be resolved using ctrl+alt+backspace (sometimes you have to try this twice). We use the 1024x768 and 24 bit colors, so this shouldn't be the problem.
Does anyone know a fix for this problem?
Janez
Janez,
I seem to remember having a similar problem with a lab full of those machines some years ago. They were running an earlier version of Fedora. What we had to do was upgrade the BIOS. They are now running Fedora-11 with BIOS ver 2.6.2
Hope this helps,
Tony
From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Janez Kosmrlj Sent: maandag 28 juni 2010 13:59 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] centos 5.5 on optiplex 745
Hi, we have some old dell optiplex 745 machines which have the Intel 965q chipset. The problem is, that they freeze as soon as the system tries to start the X system. It happens even before any log is written. This happens almost every time (for some reason it sometimes work, but 99% it fails). When i change the graphic driver in xorg.conf from intel to vesa it mostly works, but still i sometimes get a flickering screen, but this can mostly be resolved using ctrl+alt+backspace (sometimes you have to try this twice). We use the 1024x768 and 24 bit colors, so this shouldn't be the problem.
Does anyone know a fix for this problem?
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This is an issue with the graphics, it gets initialized in the wrong way ( driver ) The installer does not recognize the correct video chip during install. If you boot the system in runlevel 3 and then change the driver to i810 in the device section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf :
Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "i810" EndSection
Good luck, Edwin
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Dicker, Edwin EDicker@illumina.comwrote:
This is an issue with the graphics, it gets initialized in the wrong way ( driver ) The installer does not recognize the correct video chip during install. If you boot the system in runlevel 3 and then change the driver to i810 in the device section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf :
Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "i810" EndSection
Good luck, Edwin
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I tried both things. The bios update and the i810 driver and nothing worked.
After the bios update the vesa driver seems a bit more stable, but still not 100%.
And with the i810 driver it doesnt work at all. When X starts the screen starts to blink and does this forever (it didn't stop after 15 minutes, i didn't wait longer). When i looked at the Xorg log it says that the i810 driver is not the correct one for this chipset and that i should use the "intel" driver instead.
Janez
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I tried both things. The bios update and the i810 driver and nothing worked.
After the bios update the vesa driver seems a bit more stable, but still not 100%.
And with the i810 driver it doesnt work at all. When X starts the screen starts to blink and does this forever (it didn't stop after 15 minutes, i didn't wait longer). When i looked at the Xorg log it says that the i810 driver is not the correct one for this chipset and that i should use the "intel" driver instead.
Janez
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Could it be that Dell has different types of Graphics controllers in their Optiplexes? It did work in my model. I've been installing with 5.3 x86_64. The same redhat version though did not show any problems.
Here's output of my lspci, maybe you can see some differences.
[root@doos ~]# lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82Q963/Q965 Memory Controller Hub (rev 02) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82Q963/Q965 PCI Express Root Port (rev 02) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82Q963/Q965 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82Q963/Q965 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02) 00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02) 00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02) 00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 02) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev f2) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HB/HR (ICH8/R) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) 4 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) 2 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 02) 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5721 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 21) 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5754 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)
Cheers, Edwin
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