Bug#406499: Problem with xorg configuration
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: CD
Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-CD-1.iso
Date: 2007-01-09, snapshot downloaded the same day.
Machine: Laptop, Dell Latitude D600
Processor: "Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.80GHz"
Memory: 512 MB
Partitions:
Filesystem Type 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 ext3 264445 154829 95963 62% /
tmpfs tmpfs 258212 0 258212 0% /lib/init/rw
udev tmpfs 10240 96 10144 1% /dev
tmpfs tmpfs 258212 0 258212 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda9 ext3 28621052 578596 26588576 3% /home
/dev/hda8 ext3 381138 10328 351132 3% /tmp
/dev/hda5 ext3 4806904 3082808 1479912 68% /usr
/dev/hda6 ext3 2885780 624596 2114596 23% /var
/dev/nnpfs0 nnpfs 2097152 100 2097102 1% /afs
Output of lspci -nn and lspci -vnn:
lspci -nn (for lspci -vnn output is appended at the end of this
message):
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller [8086:3340] (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller [8086:3341] (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:24c2] (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:24c4] (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:24c7] (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:24cd] (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev 81)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge [8086:24cc] (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller [8086:24ca] (rev 01)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller [8086:24c5] (rev 01)
00:1f.6 Modem [0703]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller [8086:24c6] (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 [Mobility FireGL 9000] [1002:4c66] (rev 02)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5705M Gigabit Ethernet [14e4:165d] (rev 01)
02:01.0 CardBus bridge [0607]: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711EC1 SmartCardBus Controller [1217:7113] (rev 20)
02:01.1 CardBus bridge [0607]: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711EC1 SmartCardBus Controller [1217:7113] (rev 20)
02:03.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4309 802.11a/b/g [14e4:4324] (rev 03)
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot: [O]
Detect network card: [O]
Configure network: [O]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [O]
Install base system: [O]
Clock/timezone setup: [O]
User/password setup: [O]
Install tasks: [O]
Install boot loader: [O]
Overall install: [E]
Comments/Problems:
I selected the "desktop" task during the installation process. This
generated an xorg configuration file specifying the display driver
ivtvdev, and this was also the only driver that was installed on the
system. Then X failed to start, with an error message like "No device
found" (sorry, I didn't keep the log).
After intalling the vesa driver (xserver-xorg-video-vesa), X works
fine, but without any fancy hardware acceleration. Maybe the radeon
driver from the radeon driver from the xserver-xorg-video-ati packege
should work better (I haven't tried yet).
Anyway, I think the installation program should be able to figure out
that the machine has a radeon graphics card and either install a
specialized driver for it (if one exists), or fall back to the general
vesa driver. I have no idea which hardware the ivtvdev is intended
for, but it didn't work with mine.
So X doesn't work out of the box. THat was the only major problem
during the install, everything else wore nice and smooth.
But I also have some minor problems and complaints:
* The automatic X configuration also used the synaptics touchpad
driver. That's nice, but the defaults for this driver makes moving
the X pointer very very very slow. I added
Option "MaxSpeed" "5.0"
Option "MinSpeed" "2.0"
to the configuration. I don't know exactly what this means, but the
results are more workable. The defaults needs some tweaking here.
* Every five minutes, I get the following mesages written to syslog
Jan 11 14:04:01 maskros kernel: bcm43xx: PHY connected
Jan 11 14:04:01 maskros kernel: bcm43xx: Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load failed.
Jan 11 14:04:01 maskros kernel: bcm43xx: core_up for active 802.11 core failed (-2)
Jan 11 14:04:04 maskros NetworkManager: <WARNING>^I nm_device_802_11_wireless_scan (): could not trigger wireless scan on device eth0: No such device
It would be better if it simply gave up, and didn't try again until
I say "ifup eth0". Or something like that; I don't quite understand
how this works or how to fix it.
* The package xlockmore is missing (apt-get just gives "Package
xlockmore has no installation candidate"). I'm using the debian
mirror on http://ftp.sunet.se, not just the installation CD.
* Selection of network services:
The default desktop configuration starts a bunch of processes that
open network ports. Since I believe in the "no network services
running by default", I removed the offending packages, using netstat
and lsof to figure out what they were. The packages removed during
this process (either because they were listening to the network, or
depended on one such package) were
avahi-daemon, cupsys, cupsys-driver-gutenprint,
fast-user-switch-applet, hplip, nfs-common, portmap, printconf
The remaining services on the machine, according to netstat -l, are
tcp/smtp (exim), listening on localhost only,
udp/bootpc
udp/auth
icmp
One service I *want* to have running is ntp, but that was
appearantly not included by default.
Regards,
/Niels
lspci -vnn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller [8086:3340] (rev 03)
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Capabilities: <access denied>
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller [8086:3341] (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 32
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=32
I/O behind bridge: 0000c000-0000cfff
Memory behind bridge: fc000000-fdffffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: e8000000-efffffff
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:24c2] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Latitude D400 [8086:4541]
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
I/O ports at bf80 [size=32]
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:24c4] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Latitude D400 [8086:4541]
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
I/O ports at bf40 [size=32]
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:24c7] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Latitude D400 [8086:4541]
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
I/O ports at bf20 [size=32]
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:24cd] (rev 01) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Dell Latitude D600 [1028:011d]
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
Memory at f4fffc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev 81) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=0a, sec-latency=32
I/O behind bridge: 0000d000-0000efff
Memory behind bridge: f6000000-fbffffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 30000000-33ffffff
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge [8086:24cc] (rev 01)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
00:1f.1 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller [8086:24ca] (rev 01) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Latitude D400 [8086:4541]
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
I/O ports at <ignored>
I/O ports at <ignored>
I/O ports at <ignored>
I/O ports at <ignored>
I/O ports at bfa0 [size=16]
Memory at 34000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller [8086:24c5] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Unknown device [1028:011d]
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 5
I/O ports at b800 [size=256]
I/O ports at bc40 [size=64]
Memory at f4fff800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
Memory at f4fff400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: <access denied>
00:1f.6 Modem [0703]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller [8086:24c6] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [Generic])
Subsystem: Conexant Unknown device [14f1:5422]
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 5
I/O ports at b400 [size=256]
I/O ports at b080 [size=128]
Capabilities: <access denied>
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 [Mobility FireGL 9000] [1002:4c66] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Dell Unknown device [1028:011d]
Flags: bus master, VGA palette snoop, stepping, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
I/O ports at c000 [size=256]
Memory at fcff0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at fc000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5705M Gigabit Ethernet [14e4:165d] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Latitude D400 [1028:865d]
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
Memory at faff0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
02:01.0 CardBus bridge [0607]: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711EC1 SmartCardBus Controller [1217:7113] (rev 20)
Subsystem: Dell Unknown device [1028:011d]
Flags: bus master, stepping, slow devsel, latency 168, IRQ 11
Memory at fa000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=02, secondary=03, subordinate=06, sec-latency=176
Memory window 0: 30000000-31fff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: f6000000-f7fff000
I/O window 0: 0000d000-0000d0ff
I/O window 1: 0000d400-0000d4ff
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001
02:01.1 CardBus bridge [0607]: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711EC1 SmartCardBus Controller [1217:7113] (rev 20)
Subsystem: Dell Unknown device [1028:011d]
Flags: bus master, stepping, slow devsel, latency 168, IRQ 11
Memory at fa001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=02, secondary=07, subordinate=0a, sec-latency=176
Memory window 0: 32000000-33fff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: f8000000-f9fff000
I/O window 0: 0000d800-0000d8ff
I/O window 1: 0000dc00-0000dcff
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001
02:03.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4309 802.11a/b/g [14e4:4324] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Truemobile 1450 MiniPCI [1028:0003]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
Memory at fafee000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
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