'Video out of Sync' Compaq 6000 pro microtower + Intel Q43 Express/IGPU 4500
sirsquishy
I believe I have narrowed this down to a driver issue.
Here is what i know, using builds all the way from 6.1 back to 4.4
the
'xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.3.2-2+lenny6 X.Org X server -- Intel
i8xx, i9xx display driver'
is being used across builds. However when i use Knoppix 6.1/unbuntu
10.02 i do not get this issue and I found out they are using the
driver;
'xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.9.0-1 X.Org X server -- Intel i8xx, i9xx
display driver'
Now, i need this driver packaged in with a newer build of the Kiosk.
But i am not 100% sure this is going to solve the video issue for this
situation. All i know is for the newer distros that are working they
are all using that newer intel driver.
If someone wants to drop the directions i will package the driver
myself, but seeing how this distro uses the SquashFS compressed file
system im not 100% sure on how to compile the driver then pack it into
a working file replacement for the LiveCD to use.
And to get it working with out the driver, when i edit the xorg.conf
file and then the script in rc.2 the script is just gibberish. Not
sure why but its really unreadable so i cannot edit it to make a
generic xorg.conf push work.
Daniele Palumbo
> I believe I have narrowed this down to a driver issue.
>
> Here is what i know, using builds all the way from 6.1 back to 4.4
> the
>
> 'xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.3.2-2+lenny6 X.Org X server -- Intel
> i8xx, i9xx display driver'
i have the same issue.
This is indeed related to the intel driver, that in lenny is not loaded by default loading instead the vesa one.
the source:
http://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Thinkpad/T400/lenny
now on, i have tried forcing intel driver, and the issue is gone.
that is.
i need now a way (AFAIK there is none) to specify Xorg driver in /proc/cmdline.
or am i wrong?
bye
d.
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00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
webconverger:~# lspci -n -s 00:02.0 -v
00:02.0 0300: 8086:2a42 (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: 1025:0268
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 28
Memory at fe400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
I/O ports at c080 [size=8]
Capabilities: [90] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable+
Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 3
webconverger:~#
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Kai Hendry
I've noticed this new intel problem on my own Thinkpad X61 with 6.2.
This used to work. Very annoying. :(
I will endeavour to fix this.
With thanks,
Daniele Palumbo
> I've noticed this new intel problem on my own Thinkpad X61 with 6.2.
> This used to work. Very annoying. :(
>
> I will endeavour to fix this.
Hi,
i have tried to install intel driver 6.9 with no luck, the only way was to
apt-pinning with squeeze (indeed, not a solution to something "stable").
(set up pinning and
apt-get -t testing install xorg
It is a working solution, BTW.)
but, the real problem was that .xsession does have an error and X was looped
restarting itself in nosudo mode (i have to say Kay, i hated you when i found
it, i had lost one night trying to understand why X was rebooting :) )
patch in attachment.
the second thing i made, just to be sure in the future, was adding
xdriver
as boot option.
if it is found, than it will force the driver in xorg.conf.
it is not a well tested solution, some X guru (or regex guru) should rewrite
the code.
so, i have resolved like that:
- downloaded the iso
- copied it to new dir (mount -o loop ...)
- extracted squash from that dir to new dir (mount -o loop ...)
- added nameserver to /etc/resolv.conf (echo nameserver ip > /etc/resolv.conf)
- added the 2 patches to handle the correct driver and do not restart in
nosudo mode
- (optional) apt-get install openssh-server less vim-nox, setted root
password, added to /etc/iptables.dontremeber the rule to allow ssh.
- removed the content of /etc/resolv.conf, /var/cache/apt/*
- packed up the squashfs
- added xdriver=intel to the extracted iso
- packed up the iso
- dd'ed it to usb flash
- enjoy
i have attached a little script to do the operations of creating squash and
iso faster.
HTH.
bye
d.
Kai Hendry
> i have tried to install intel driver 6.9 with no luck, the only way was to
I'm trying to now understand why this problem has cropped up. What is
this version 6.9 intel driver and why does it need to be installed?
http://lists.debian.org/debian-live/2010/07/msg00044.html
> but, the real problem was that .xsession does have an error and X was looped
> restarting itself in nosudo mode (i have to say Kay, i hated you when i found
> it, i had lost one night trying to understand why X was rebooting :) )
> patch in attachment.
Well I can't have users dropped to console really. X must work
otherwise Webconverger does not work. :)
> the second thing i made, just to be sure in the future, was adding
> xdriver
> as boot option.
Why do we need to force the driver now? X should be smart enough use
the right driver. This used to work.
The crazy thing is that I can't see any differences in Xorg from 6.0 to 6.2
rong
extracting and packing squashfs.
any help appreciated.
thanks
ron
On Jul 9, 4:12 am, Kai Hendry <hen...@webconverger.com> wrote:
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