[Solved] Another Video Card Problem

celebrimbor · 2012-07-05 08:26:26

Hello everyone on forums!
This is my first post and I am very excited to use Arch.
I have followed Arch wiki guidelines to install all the packages step by step. However, installing video driver step brought me to an impasse. (I don't have any knowledge about video drivers so this might sound dumb!) When I searched forums about video driver, everyone's video driver had some name like 82845G or something when lsmod or lspci is run. My lspci doesn't gives such name.

lspci gives:

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 18) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
	Subsystem: Dell Device 0456
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 41
	Memory at f0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
	Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
	I/O ports at 1800 [size=8]
	Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
	Capabilities: [90] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
	Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2

What video driver should I install?
When I installed xf86-video-intel-sna drivers I get "Failed to get i915 symbols" at the startup. What should I do?

Last edited by celebrimbor (2012-07-06 09:22:03)

Gcool · 2012-07-06 07:47:36

Welcome to the forums.

The driver you installed is indeed the correct one. As for the "Failed to get i915 symbols" you receive during bootup; have a look here for an explanation/fix.

celebrimbor · 2012-07-06 08:18:06

Thank you! And When I asked this question, I hadn't reached that far in the installation because I wanted to ensure first that xf86-video-intel-sna is right for my system and hence hadn't read that. Sorry for that. And may I ask if there any other packages needed to install for better GPU performance (I further installed libva-driver-intel. Is there any other package I need to install?)?

Gcool · 2012-07-06 08:33:33

All in all, the intel drivers are fairly straightforward (not alot of configuration required).

Just following the steps in the wiki page I linked earlier should get you up and running. The only additional (performance related) install that may be required is lib32-intel-dri (which is also explained on the wiki page).

celebrimbor · 2012-07-06 09:21:37

Ok. Installed that as well. Thanks for the advice!

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