Problem with Intel VGA driver

Bug #133345 reported by Mina Shokry
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Bug Description

When trying to run NASA world wind using Java WebStart from
http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/java/index.html
the application produces a blank screen.
Documentation of this application says that when a blank screen is produced, this indicates a problem in VGA driver
also note that this application works properly on the same computer with Microsoft Windows.

The computer is a laptop "Dell Inspiron 6400"
the VGA card is "Mobile Intel® 945GM Express Chipset Family"

when executing "lspci -v"
the output is

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
        Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 01bd
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
        Capabilities: [e0] Vendor Specific Information

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
        Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 01bd
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
        Memory at eff00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
        I/O ports at eff8 [size=8]
        Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
        Memory at efec0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
        Capabilities: [90] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable-
        Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2

00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
        Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 01bd
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
        Memory at eff80000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
        Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 01bd
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
        Memory at efebc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [60] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
        Capabilities: [70] Express Unknown type IRQ 0

00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=0b, subordinate=0b, sec-latency=0
        Memory behind bridge: efd00000-efdfffff
        Capabilities: [40] Express Root Port (Slot+) IRQ 0
        Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable-
        Capabilities: [90] Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 01bd
        Capabilities: [a0] Power Management version 2

00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=0c, subordinate=0d, sec-latency=0
        I/O behind bridge: 0000d000-0000dfff
        Memory behind bridge: efa00000-efcfffff
        Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000e0000000-00000000e01fffff
        Capabilities: [40] Express Root Port (Slot+) IRQ 0
        Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable-
        Capabilities: [90] Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 01bd
        Capabilities: [a0] Power Management version 2

00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
        Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 01bd
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
        I/O ports at bf80 [size=32]

00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
        Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 01bd
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
        I/O ports at bf60 [size=32]

00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
        Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 01bd
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 20
        I/O ports at bf40 [size=32]

00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
        Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 01bd
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 21
        I/O ports at bf20 [size=32]

00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
        Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 01bd
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
        Memory at ffa80000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [58] Debug port

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e1) (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=32
        Memory behind bridge: ef900000-ef9fffff
        Capabilities: [50] Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 01bd

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 01bd
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
        Capabilities: [e0] Vendor Specific Information

00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) Serial ATA Storage Controller IDE (rev 01) (prog-if 80 [Master])
        Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 01bd
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22
        I/O ports at 01f0 [size=8]
        I/O ports at 03f4 [size=1]
        I/O ports at 0170 [size=8]
        I/O ports at 0374 [size=1]
        I/O ports at bfa0 [size=16]
        Capabilities: [70] Power Management version 2

00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 01bd
        Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 4
        I/O ports at 10c0 [size=32]

03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
        Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 01af
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 22
        Memory at ef9fe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2

03:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0832 (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
        Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 01bd
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
        Memory at ef9fd800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2

03:01.1 Generic system peripheral [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 19) (prog-if 01)
        Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 01bd
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 23
        Memory at ef9fd400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
        Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

03:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0843 (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 01bd
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
        Memory at ef9fd500 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
        Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

03:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 0a)
        Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 01bd
        Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 11
        Memory at ef9fd600 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
        Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

03:01.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 05)
        Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 01bd
        Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 11
        Memory at ef9fd700 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
        Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

0b:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02)
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device 1021
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
        Memory at efdff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Capabilities: [c8] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [d0] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
        Capabilities: [e0] Express Legacy Endpoint IRQ 0

I am using Ubuntu 7.04 and all components are up to date.

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trollord (trollenlord) wrote :

GMA950, Feisty, everything working (including compiz-fusion but I disabled it for testing). This doesn't work. I wonder what on earth they are doing in that application...

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Mina Shokry (mina) wrote : Re: [Bug 133345] Re: Problem with Intel VGA driver

I really don't know what they are doing in this application,
do you think the problem is in the linux native library of this java
application, so the application runs on Windows and didn't on Ubuntu?
I don't assume that!
I also assume every other thing is working because I didn't see other
problems yet. but this off course doesn't mean that there are no
problems
Beryl is working with me properly except in two things
1 - Java applications (and I think this is a known bug).
2 - Video (when running video I see nothing when Beryl is running).

I am a developer how can I help in this bug (if we agreed this is a
bug)?

On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 01:22 +0000, trollord wrote:
> GMA950, Feisty, everything working (including compiz-fusion but I
> disabled it for testing). This doesn't work. I wonder what on earth they
> are doing in that application...
>

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trollord (trollenlord) wrote :

It seems like a genuine bug. Most likely jni opengl issue - which is in Google's software and should be handled by Google and not by Ubuntu project.

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