[Problem]
Support for 8xx chipsets is dodgy at best, due to insufficient upstream testing/development/priorities. Users frequently experience regressions and problems, which they find annoying.
For distro maintenance, we typically prioritize development work around 915 and higher, and recommend owners of older hardware work directly with upstream filing bugs at bugzilla.freedesktop.org rather than launchpad.
This bug report requests a warning be presented to users on 8xx intel chips that they may be on their own if they run into problems unique to 8xx, and so should do ample testing on their own using livecds and whatnot before risking an upgrade.
10.04 LTS was the last release where we gave priority to 8xx issues and did development/fixup work on it, and so 8xx owners must be cautious upgrading beyond that. Upstream still does some limited maintenance work for 8xx, so Ubuntu may well work fine (so blacklisting 8xx is not suitable) but if it doesn't, we are not open to backporting upstream fixes or introducing tweaks to fix 8xx issues. Our experience has been that when we do this, we risk fixing it for one system but breaking several others...
[Original Report]
Posted from the X11 recovery session.
None of the sessions works (except the recovery session, but that doesn't count) after upgrade from Maverick to Natty:
- Ubuntu : a dialog box says the hadware is does not accept Unity, then screen is garbled (reboot from linux console)
- Ubuntu Classic : screen is garbled (reboot from linux console)
- Ubuntu Classic (no effects) : system freeze
Why the upgrade did not warn me about the lack of support for this hardware? I would not have upgraded. Or tested with the live CD.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: xorg 1:7.6+4ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: None
DRM.card0.VGA.1:
status: connected
enabled: enabled
dpms: On
modes: 1680x1050 1280x1024 1280x1024 1280x960 1152x864 1024x768 1024x768 1024x768 832x624 800x600 800x600 800x600 800x600 640x480 640x480 640x480 640x480 720x400
edid-base64: AP///////wBMLQwDMjJFTQgSAQMOLx54KtUVpFVJmicUUFS/74CzAIGAgUBxTwEBAQEBAQEBfC6QoGAaHkAwIDYA2igRAAAaAAAA/QA4Sx5RDgAKICAgICAgAAAA/ABTeW5jTWFzdGVyCiAgAAAA/wBIUzNRMjEyOTE1CiAgAEY=
Date: Sun May 1 18:54:42 2011
DistUpgraded: Log time: 2011-05-01 15:06:44.795705
DistroCodename: natty
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus:
virtualbox-ose, 4.0.4, 2.6.38-8-generic, i686: installed
virtualbox-ose, 4.0.4, 2.6.35-28-generic, i686: installed
GraphicsCard:
Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2572] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company D530 sff(dc578av) [103c:12bc]
Lsusb:
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP d530 SFF(DG059T)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=fr_FR:en
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic root=UUID=5f7f6055-15cd-4412-bf5e-a49fcf303fe7 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
Renderer: Unknown
SourcePackage: xorg
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-05-01 (0 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 07/10/2003
dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.bios.version: 786B2 v1.11
dmi.board.name: 085Ch
dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: CZC4161ZSK
dmi.chassis.type: 4
dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvr786B2v1.11:bd07/10/2003:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPd530SFF(DG059T):pvr:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn085Ch:rvr:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct4:cvr:
dmi.product.name: HP d530 SFF(DG059T)
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.4+bzr20110415-0ubuntu2
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.23-1ubuntu6
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 7.10.2-0ubuntu2
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.10.2-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+4ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.0-0ubuntu4
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.14.0-4ubuntu7
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110107+b795ca6e-0ubuntu7
From the Ubuntu web site:
"Ubuntu 11.04 is built to take advantage of the very latest technologies, but it should work on a most desktops, laptops and netbooks too. If you don’t have the required hardware, Ubuntu will automatically start the classic desktop experience so you won’t have to worry about a thing."
Thank you for the Ubuntu experience!