Ubuntu Karmic Koala, ASUS Eee Box and black screen
Julkaistu
I recently upgraded my lovely ASUS Eee Box B203 from Jaunty to Karmic only to be greeted by black screen and blinking signal light (signal going on and off). This appeared to be caused by a bug in Xorg Intel driver version 2.9.0. The Debian bug report had a patch that worked for me.
It took a while to find out the reason. Mainly because there are “Karmic black screen!!!1″ stuff all over the place now and the reasons vary. Xorg log had a tip. Xorg Intel driver did not see the monitor which was connected to DVI port (TDMS-1).
(II) intel(0): Output VGA disconnected
(II) intel(0): Output TMDS-1 disconnected
(WW) intel(0): No outputs definitely connected, trying again...
(II) intel(0): Output VGA disconnected
(II) intel(0): Output TMDS-1 disconnected
(WW) intel(0): Unable to find initial modes
(EE) intel(0): No valid modes.That way I found the Debian bug report. And this is how I downloaded, patched, compiled and installed a video driver that works for me.
mkdir ~/src
cd ~/src
apt-get install dpkg-dev
apt-get source xserver-xorg-video-intel
wget http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=30;filename=patch-revert;att=1;bug=548045 -O video-intel-revert.patch
patch xserver-xorg-video-intel-2.9.0/src/i830_sdvo.c video-intel-revert.patch
apt-get build-deb xserver-xorg-video-intel
apt-get install devscripts # contains dch
cd xserver-xorg-video-intel-2.9.0/
dch -i "bump version"
dch -l '~terotil' "tag this local"
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -b
cd ..
sudo dpkg -i xserver-xorg-video-intel_2.9.0-1ubuntu3~terotil1_i386.deb