Intel Video Issue

archbie · 2023-01-01 19:02:45

Recently I have switched from linux mint cinnamon to arch In mint 1080p video was playing smoothly on vlc but in arch there is frame skip and low resolution.
Hardware acceleration is unavailable for every applications and even browsers,
and 'vainfo' command is not found

I'm newbie in arch,

pc specifications:
Intel pentium e5500
Ram 2gb
No external graphics card
Hdd 150gb
it is the same pc where i have previously installed cinnamon,

As mint comes with pre installed softwares
and we have to build arch from scratch

Have i missed something...
what softwares/drivers do I need to install

I have followed arch wiki but the results was not satisfying

Head_on_a_Stick · 2023-01-01 19:11:19

archbie wrote:

I have followed arch wiki but the results was not satisfying

What page and it what way was it "not satisfying"? Read https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Hardwa … celeration and tell us exactly what you're struggling with and why.

Modern Intel graphics do require linux-firmware but the official guide tells you to install that. Which guide did you follow?

Can we see

lspci -knn | grep -iA3 'vga\|3d\|display'
dmesg | grep firmware

V1del · 2023-01-01 22:15:43

That's pretty old HW you'll probably need mesa-amber and xf86-video-intel as well.

archbie · 2023-01-02 11:53:03

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

archbie wrote:
I have followed arch wiki but the results was not satisfying
What page and it what way was it "not satisfying"? Read https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Hardwa … celeration and tell us exactly what you're struggling with and why.
Modern Intel graphics do require linux-firmware but the official guide tells you to install that. Which guide did you follow?
Can we see
lspci -knn | grep -iA3 'vga\|3d\|display'
dmesg | grep firmware

{ lspci -knn | grep -iA3 'vga\|3d\|display' }

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:29c2] (rev 10)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:29c2]
Kernel driver in use: i915
Kernel modules: i915

{ sudo dmesg | grep firmware }

[ 20.659403] platform regulatory.0: Direct firmware load for regulatory.db failed with error -2

Head_on_a_Stick · 2023-01-02 12:16:03

As V1del noted, that hardware is pretty old so the iGPU doesn't need firmware.

You haven't responded to this:

I wrote:

tell us exactly what you're struggling with and why

Which is both strange (because you've quoted it, unnecessarily) and irritating.

There's no spoon-feeding here. Show your working please.

I'm going to hazard a guess that you've never even glanced at the official installation guide. Which crappy youtube video did you watch?

archbie · 2023-01-02 14:43:46

I have installed kde desktop with x11 through this tutorial

https://youtu.be/cTi-HyHPfw4

Issues im facing:

1 Booting time is slow (compared to my laptop)

2. All the applications are too slow, sometimes screen freezes after closing Kodi, firefox and brave doesn't stream 1080p youtube video, I can't play downloaded 1080p video in VLC smoothly there is always frame skip

Previously from some online post. I found that my processor was weak so i need to use mesa-amber. As i switched to mesa-amber my bottom screen was fully black until i have to manually turn off composting in settings

All the above mentioned problem doesn't exist in my hp laptop everything there is almost same (hardware & software) currently im using hp pavilion g4 amd processor. And i have used same tutorial to install arch+kde in laptop

What logs do i need to paste here

and sorry for bad quality of post as i still needs to learn how to post on this forum

Advance thanks for help

seth · 2023-01-02 15:07:47

1. Shitty youtube tutorials get you shitty results and are therefore not supported. You wanted to use https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Installation_guide
2. As a result of following a shitty youtube tutorial you obviously have no idea about the system in front of you.
3. Post a system journal from both systems

sudo journalctl -b | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

so that at least we can get an idea about the system in front of you.

Edit: that'S btw. a GMA3100, your problem isn't the IGP, but the CPU, because there's no HW decoding.

Last edited by seth (2023-01-02 15:21:32)

archbie · 2023-01-02 16:47:09

journalctl desktop

http://0x0.st/oRLd.txt

journalctl laptop

http://0x0.st/oRLk.txt

seth · 2023-01-02 20:56:11

First of all, set a static hostname, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Networ … e_hostname (shitty youtube tutorials are shitty…)
Second: did you notice that you have "i915.enable_psr=0" on the PC, where it makes no sense, but not on the laptop, where it would? (shitty youtube tutorials are extra shitty…)

Well, it *would* it the "Pavillion" system had an intel chip, but it doesn't:

Jan 02 21:55:48 archlinux kernel: pci 0000:00:01.0: [1002:9648] type 00 class 0x030000
Jan 02 21:55:48 archlinux kernel: smpboot: CPU0: AMD A4-3330MX APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics (family: 0x12, model: 0x1, stepping: 0x0)

which is apparently an https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/r … g-igp.c827
So much for "mY Hp lApToP EvErYtHiNg tHeRe iS AlMoSt sAmE (hArDwArE & SoFtWaRe)" - no it's not.
Entirely not.
The AMD GPU is ridiculously more powerful "less sluggish" (by todays standards) than the intel IGP, see eg. https://technical.city/en/video/Radeon- … s-GMA-3100

The idea to play 1080p/h264 on that system is hillarious, but well:
Start by replacing plasma w/ openbox - what kind of desktop environment were you running on linux mint?

archbie · 2023-01-03 09:51:34

i was using linux mint with cinnamon 20.3

I have 2 Questions

1 Is there any way to use kde with openbox

2 Is it possible to use arch+kde on my system along with hardware acceleration

V1del · 2023-01-03 09:57:03

You can use KDE with openbox but for a test you should try a plain openbox session, for the second question which kind of hardware acceleration are you looking for? There's basically nothing usable there hardware-wise, as already mentioned video acceleration is not going to happen and you graphics acceleration will be so slow that any kind of compositor might be too much to bear, so you'd have to opt for unaccelerated contexts. This hardware simply isn't very good, wasn't very good when it was new and will struggle with many modern usecases.

seth · 2023-01-03 13:59:46

Post

glxinfo -B

to see whether it's at least sufficient for the KWin GL compositor (though I think it would just refuse to start otherwise)

Since this is apparently a modular PC, I'd suggest to get some cheap, passively cooled GPU (AMD or nvidia, in doubt from ebay) - you'll get abysmally better GL, at least h264, maybe h265 decoding and pssibly even encoding for almost no money.

archbie · 2023-01-03 17:03:22

glxinfo -B

name of display: :0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
Extended renderer info (GLX_MESA_query_renderer):
Vendor: Mesa/X.org (0xffffffff)
Device: llvmpipe (LLVM 14.0.6, 128 bits) (0xffffffff)
Version: 22.3.1
Accelerated: no
Video memory: 1965MB
Unified memory: yes
Preferred profile: core (0x1)
Max core profile version: 4.5
Max compat profile version: 4.5
Max GLES1 profile version: 1.1
Max GLES[23] profile version: 3.2
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa/X.org
OpenGL renderer string: llvmpipe (LLVM 14.0.6, 128 bits)
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.5 (Core Profile) Mesa 22.3.1
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.50
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile

OpenGL version string: 4.5 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 22.3.1
OpenGL shading language version string: 4.50
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL profile mask: compatibility profile

OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.2 Mesa 22.3.1
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.20

V1del · 2023-01-03 17:29:51

You aren't running mesa-amber which we already mentioned as a precondition, right now you are doing everything on the CPU not even using what little acceleration might be there

Please paste outputs in [code ] [/code ] tags without the spaces between brackets to make them more readable

Last edited by V1del (2023-01-03 17:32:14)

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