Anyone had luck with intel GMA X4500.

sreekant · 2009-06-03 02:40:27

Hi guys
I have been using arch for an yr or so on an older Athlon system. I bought a new one with Asus mb with onboard graphics. It has Intel GMA X4500 chip. lspci recognises it as Series 4 chip.

I installed xf86-video-intel, xf86-video-vesa. Without the vesa driver it does not work at all. I mean the xinit even with hal running says no screens found. With the vesa and intel-legacy driver it uses vesa and shows a low res screen. Even xvidcap refuses saying this is not allowed on this chipset! I tried AUR and installed xf86-video-intel-newest but had the "DRM_I915_ENTERVT failed: Unknown error 18446744073709551604" error.

I always used nvidia and they never gave trouble. I am kicking myself for not researching enough.

Anyone had any luck using this chipset! Especially painful since I want to use it with blender and obviously 3D is a must.

Thanks
sreekant

sreekant · 2009-06-03 11:41:14

I guess not judging by the silence.

I suppose nothing a 20bucks nvidia card can't fix. Anyhow it has been a long time since a linux distro couldn't use the videocard properly. Nostalgia isn't always good. One shouldn't have to buy something as basic as a videocard due to poor support in the kernel.

sreekant · 2009-06-03 11:42:05

Poor support in the kernel / xorg I meant.

zenlord · 2009-06-04 07:41:43

A quick search with google revealed that the x4500 is working just fine on linux. The same search pointed me towards this very own forum...

Zl.

leeyee · 2009-06-04 11:02:33

I'm using intel X4500 MHD card, everything is working fine here with xf86-video-intel driver. You don't even need a xorg.conf file~

Bogart · 2009-06-04 14:18:03

I have a Dell desktop using X4500 and it works fine for months with the default packages.

It is difficult to say what's the problem you're having exactly. Maybe you're missing some package? Did you install the group xorg (pacman -S xorg)?

Or maybe you're connecting your screen through HDMI (which might be more problematic)?

sreekant · 2009-06-04 16:41:48

Oops. I already ordered an nvidia card in haste. I was using the DVI output though it shouldn't make a difference. I have installed xorg as usual.
I will try again and see if reinstalling all the stuff and using good old d-sub connection make a difference.

sreekant · 2009-06-04 20:54:29

Hi guys

I tried reinstalling, playing with intel and intel-legacy, various settings in the bios for the graphics aperture size and so on. Still only get vesa 1024x768 resolution with no clarity on a brand new lcd monitor. Changed between D-Sub and DVI cables with no improvement. Waiting on delivery of nvidia card.

To Zenlord: I did indeed search for several hrs and ofcourse when something isn't working you search for people having problems rather than people having it work flawlessly. I spent best part of 6 hrs playing with several settings and then just gave up. Will wait on the new card.

Oh well. And I sincerely hope this is not a monitor issue. It is a brand new one afterall !!!

Thanks
sreekant

Bogart · 2009-06-04 22:32:11

You could always try some live CD from some distribution and see if that works (Ubuntu 9.04 works here). If it does, then it's some configuration problem (though it's strange these days when even xorg.conf is not needed).

sreekant · 2009-06-06 11:09:08

Just an update. I tried with intel, intel legacy and with dsub and dvi. Did not try other distros as I am not keen to change. However got my nvidia card and voila, just adding nvidia driver and X -configure sorted all probs. I guess it is the same mentality of windoze arena :-) but nvidia worked out and 512mb separate gfx car is way better experience than onboard gfx anyways.

thanks guys

ormandj · 2009-06-09 08:54:56

sreekant:

I've got a laptop with a X4500MHD and a desktop with an X4500HD and both work fine using the xorg/intel (normal) driver. I don't get the best performance, but things have been improving since I'm able to run KMS with the X4500MHD. KMS still causes the X4500HD to crash when you start full screen video, however. It works without an xorg.conf, however I added one to enable UXA.

David

Last edited by ormandj (2009-06-09 08:55:35)

zenlord · 2009-06-09 16:29:57

@ sreekant: I know what you're talking about. When I first started out with linux (not that long ago), struggling with /etc/X11/xorg.conf was mandatory

But I didn't see any of your logs posted here. Did you look into them?

# cat /var/log/xorg.0.log | grep 'EE' (or 'WW')

Zl.

sreekant · 2009-06-10 21:50:16

Hi guys

Now I set the wholething up with nvidia card. I have been using linux from around 96 onwards and at first my 512kb matrox card was amazing. Now I have a 512mb card ! what a change. Any I am impressed that xorg does not need a config file. That is a long way and a good job. Also the new xfce and fluxbox types are so much more polished than the cde and twm.

I did not try to save all the xorg logs. I have two desktops and when ever I tried intel or intel-newest drivers the new desktop always hung. So I used to go from the old desktop and ssh in to the test rig. If the xorg windows showup then xorg logs show that they are using vesa and resolution looks as it does for vesa! However this only happened when I used legacy drivers. With any other it just does not show anything and it does say loading intel driver and IIRC 915class.

I suppose I should have persevered and made it work for the sake of trying but let it slide as I always liked the stability of nvidia and just went back to them for 30 bucks.

Thanks
sree

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Anyone had luck with intel GMA X4500.

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