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September 8th, 2005 19:00

Fredora Core 4, Black screen when booting, Latitude D610

I have tried to install FC4 on my new D610 with the Intel 915GM (1400x1050) graphics card. But when I’m booting the system, the only ting I can see is a black screen. But I can switch to an external monitor by using Fn + CRT/LCD and then get the picture on my external monitor. After that I can switch back to the screen at my latitude, and every thing is fine.

I have tried to look for some solution for this problem at the web, but can’t find any answers. I hope somebody here can help me.

- Hans M
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    Posted October 3rd, 2005 13:00

    There are solutions for Fedora Core 4, but it takes a fair amount of work unless you are an "experienced" linux user.

    I believe I succeeded with FC4 using a combination of the DRI modules from FreeDesktop.org and the i855 patch by Christian Zietz. It's been a while, though, so I don't recall exactly.

    http://www.chzsoft.com.ar/855patch.html
    http://dri.freedesktop.org/snapshots/i915-20050718-linux.i386.tar.bz2


    A possible better solution for you is to change Distros. CentOS has a longer lifetime than Fedora and is "closer" to the official RedHat distribution. But they are all very similar.

    With CentOS 4.1, the only thing I had to do to get video working (on my 1024x768 D610) was to use the DRI snapshot mentioned above. On a D610 with the 1400x1050 resolution, additional steps might be required.


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    1. Get out of X

    # init 3


    2. Get the latest snapshot of DRI software from FreeDesktop.org.

    http://dri.freedesktop.org/snapshots/


    # wget http://dri.freedesktop.org/snapshots/i915-20050718-linux.i386.tar.bz2

    # bunzip2 i915-20050718-linux.i386.tar.bz2

    # tar -xvf i915-20050718-linux.i386.tar



    3. Install these DRI modules from freedesktop.org

    # cd dripkg
    # ./install.sh

    Accept the default values (pressing ENTER each time).


    4. Start X.

    # init 5


    5. Run the configure display utility and choose

    Monitor Type: LCD Panel 1024x768
    Video Card: Intel 915


    6. Logout.

    7. Run the configure display utility again and choose 1024x768.

    Everything works!

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    Possible additional steps for 1400x1050:

    # wget http://perso.wanadoo.fr/apoirier/855resolution-0.4.tgz

    # tar -xvzf 855resolution-0.4.tgz
    # cd 855resolution
    # make
    # make install


    Install 855resolution patch

    Modify /etc/rc.sysinit to run the patch at every startup. Some web sites have recommended putting the patch in rc.local. However, because of the Fedora Core boot sequence, rc.local runs after the graphical boot tries to start. Since the patch needs to run before the graphical boot begins, we have placed the fix in rc.sysinit, after the Welcome message and just before the line "Start the graphical boot".

    # this is the fix for Intel i915 video issue
    855resolution 3c 1400 1050

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    Please report back your solution.
    -Dan Stoner

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