Bug 8258

I installed Mageia3 alpha3 on a fit-pc2i with GMA500 graphics. I managed to log onto the system with ssh from another PC. I found that x11-driver-video-modesetting was not installed, and there was a line with 'Driver "fdev"' in xorg.conf. I installed the modesetting driver and inserted the two lines in Section "Device" of xorg.conf:
Driver "modesetting"
Option "SWCursor" "ON"

Then I re-booted, but the screen still went black. With lsmod I discovered that a module by the name 'poulsbo' was loaded, in addition to gma500_gfx. Such a module is not loaded in neither Mageia2 nor LinuxMint-14.

What is this mysterious module doing?

GMA500 now works with current updates to cauldron when I
a) remove the xorg.conf from /etc/X11 and
b) configure boot to auto-login to KDE4 and
c) in KDE disable the internal display and select a 1920x1200 resolution for the external DVI device.
In gnome GMA500 only works in mirror mode with a low 1024x768 resolution.
I get an error when I try to select the high resolution for the DVI monitor.
The fit-pci2 box does not have an internal display. The external DVI connector has to be used.
Will there be a way to configure xorg.conf from the MCC?

After massive updates to cauldron I have looked for changes:
a) xorg.conf still has to be removed by login from other PC
b) boot only works with outo-login into KDE4
There are improvements:
c) It is now possible by logout from KDE4 to obtain the login screen and
d) to login to 1) gnome, 2) gnome-classic and 3) xfce4
gnome is, however, not useful as gnome-shell uses about 80% of the CPU time.
2) and 3) seems to work, but when I try boot and auto-login into 2) and 3) I get
e) black screen for auto-login into xfce4
f) "Oh no! Something has gone wrong." for auto-login into gnome-classic.
After this I have to login from another PC to change auto-login to KDE4.

Back to black screen after the latest updates to cauldron.
This also applies for auto-login to KDE4.
Could it be x11-driver-video-intel 2.20.18?

Still black screen while trying auto-login to KDE4 after update to
x11-driver-video-intel 2.20.19. But maybe this is not the faulty component?

No more black screen when booting into graphics mode without auto-login.
BUT I had to create a new xorg.conf by "Server configuration" in MCC,
AND edit xorg.conf: Driver "fbdev" --> Driver "modesetting"
I could then login to both KDE4 and Gnome-Classic, and they worked.

Is MCC going to be modified so that "modesetting" is inserted instead of "fbdev"?

Centerum censeo: Driver "fbdev"  -->  Driver "modesetting"
when configuring xorg.conf in the control center

After the latest update (2013-04-09) to cauldron xorg.conf was overwritten during re-boot and the line
Driver "fbdev"
was inserted into xorg.conf
This again resulted in a black screen until I editet the line to
Driver "modesetting"

Any hope that this bug will be fixed?

Waht's the result of 'lspcidrake -v|grep Card' ?

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
Source RPM: x11-driver-video-modesetting-0.5.0 => ldetect-lst

Created attachment 3729 [details]
'lspcidrake -v|grep Card' as requested by Thierry Vignaud

Info on boulsbo card

We changed it from old broken psb to fbdev in bug #5633.
Changing to "modesetting" make sense due to the kernel driver
Fixed in SVN

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED

*** Bug 12792 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

CC: (none) => dglent

Actually, it workes with one of the later mga5 netinstall ISOs, so we could
possibly close it. Ah, I se it is closed!