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davidgurvich

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Registered: 2010-02-11

Posts: 118

ideas for using intel graphics

I've got two laptops, one with i830 the other with i852/855GM.   Neither works with KMS(kernel modesetting).  The i830 just has a black screen with KMS. The i855 works for a little while until it completely freezes.

The i830 laptop works well with the nomodeset grub kernel option and the 2.9.1 driver.  Fails completely with KMS enabled and doesn't work at all with 2.10 as that has no UMS(user modesetting).  Suspend/resume doesn't work well.  The vesa driver doesn't work well with the i830, not sure why.

The i855 freezes with KMS , the 2.10 driver doesn't support UMS and the 2.9 driver doesn't work at all.  I've removed the xf86-video-intel driver and set xorg to use the vesa driver.  I've had no issues using the vesa driver with suspend/resume actually working.

I would like comments on issues with older graphics cards and newer versions of xorg.  There seems to be a trend where support for older graphics cards is being dropped by the manufacturers and the older drivers are also being dropped by xorg.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: ideas for using intel graphics

I don't have a notebook, but my IBM Netvista works only w/ intel-legacy:

[karol@black arch]$ lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01)

I have KMS enabled and get no lock-ups, but once I get into X, I can't go back to the console (the screen is garbled, but otherwise works fine).

This is my downgrade script:

#!/bin/bash
pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/xorg-server-1.6.3.901-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz \
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/xorg-server-utils-7.4-7-i686.pkg.tar.gz \
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/xf86-video-intel-legacy-2.3.2-3-i686.pkg.tar.gz \
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/xf86-video-vesa-2.2.0-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz \
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/xf86-input-evdev-2.2.5-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz \
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/xf86-input-keyboard-1.3.2-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz \
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/xf86-input-mouse-1.4.0-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz \
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/intel-dri-7.5.1-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz \
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/libgl-7.5.1-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz \
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/libdrm-2.4.19-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz

in my pacman.conf I have

IgnorePkg   = xorg-server xorg-server-utils xf86-video-intel-legacy xf86-video-vesa xf86-input-evdev xf86-input-keyboard xf86-input-mouse intel-dri libgl libdrm

I tried many different drivers, libdrm etc. - nothing worked. W/ the above setup I have no complaints.

steve___

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Registered: 2008-02-24

Posts: 452

Re: ideas for using intel graphics

@davidgurvich - For the i855 are you using kernel 2.6.33 ?

davidgurvich

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Registered: 2010-02-11

Posts: 118

Re: ideas for using intel graphics

I've just updated to testing for xorg,intel-dri, and xf86-video-intel.  So far that seems to be working ok, except for frozen xorg after resume from suspend.

steve___

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Registered: 2008-02-24

Posts: 452

Re: ideas for using intel graphics

For my i855 chipset I need to ctrl+alt+F1 and then alt+F7 after resume from suspend.  I also lose all the VC's (tty1 to 6) once I do a suspend.

stuie

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Registered: 2010-07-16

Posts: 1

Re: ideas for using intel graphics

i am running an old notebook (hp n5495) with an intel 830M chipset.

i need to downgrade the video driver and i am using the above instructions.

i have been able to access all the files listed except for:

xorg-server-utils-7.4-7-i686.pkg.tar.gz
intel-dri-7.5.1-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz
libgl-7.5.1-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz

i am hoping that someone will be able to provide me with access to these files.

many thanks

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: ideas for using intel graphics

I have them; e-mail me and I'll send it to you.