[EDIT: Mostly Fixed] Hybrid graphic problem with live usb on my new laptop.

[Member stevesr0]

Hi all,

After searching the web and writing this long post, I tried rebooting with the same live USB and selecting “Safe Video”. This time the display is crystal clear – but tiny. I can zoom this in the terminal and browser, but the control centre doesn’t seem to zoom. xrandr says it is 1920×1080, but the icons and the text in the control centre it sure look tiny-er than that.

Funny thing I notice is that windows “shake” when I move them.

Still that is small potatoes.

Also, now I am connecting to the internet.

Wonder if that was connected to the video issue.

I will play with this some more and see if it is stable in antiX before any reposting.

Thanks all <g>.

stevesr0

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I bought a new 15.6″ laptop yesterday and just tried running an AntiX live usb from Feb (17.3). This is a “gaming” laptop with a maximum resolution of 1920×1080, a 144 Hz refresh rate and a HYBRID graphics setup (Intel UHD 630 and a 2 GB NVIDIA GTX 1050.

I am using a live USB until I decide if I will keep this machine.

PROBLEM: The graphics are terribly blurry and the resolution is fixed at 1024×768. I believe that Nvidia drivers have to be installed, to use the GTX 1050. I don’t know why the Intel card wouldn’t be working, though, by default. Perhaps the intel UHD 630 driver also needs to be installed.

I want to be sure that I can fix this before installing antiX on the computer. Nvidia offers a linux driver for this card (Linux x64 (AMD64/EM64T) Display Driver, V. 390.77) for download.

I would like to check if either driver is already included in the 17.3 or 17.4 releases by default or have to be added manually to the live USB (or hd install). Also whether nouveau is installed by default.

If one or both are missing, I want to add it/them to my USB and then use it while running as a live USB.

Because the screen is almost unusable, I am not sure that I can see well enough to add/install either graphic driver while running the live usb on that laptop.

I have seen a number of threads about problems with the NVIDIA drivers, but no step by step to “fix” a live USB.

So, I have come up with the possible options:

1. Run the live USB in a persistent mode on another laptop which doesn’t have a problem with the live USB graphics and install both intel and nvidia drivers on the USB. Also install nvidia-detect. Then run the live USB on the new laptop and “hope” that the correct drivers are used.

1a. As above,but first remastering the live usb before trying to run it on the new laptop.

2. Connect an external monitor to the new laptop and see if the display is clear on that machine. If so, install any missing graphics drivers and either start them at that time or reboot and seek to make them active.

3. Try a different distribution that might automagically work with the Intel UHD 630 and NVIDIA GTX 1050 without any work.

I appreciate any thoughts or referral to threads I may have missed.

stevesr0

I have another problem that I don’t understand with the live USB on the new laptop, but I think it is unrelated. I am posting that separately.

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[Moderator caprea]

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This is pretty new hardware with Intel UHD 630
Please post output of inxi -Fxz from the live-usb

Suggestions
Start with antiX17.4.1
First for sure you need a newer kernel,at least 4.19.25 ,it’s possible to install it on the usb-stick with persistence
https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/video-update-your-kernel-on-antix-live-usb/

You maybe also need newer firmware and mesa libraries for the intel gpu than debian stretch offers.
You can enable the debian-backports-repos to install them.Don’t forget to disable the backports-repos afterwards.

After this is done, you can also install the nvidia-driver on the live-usb with the baked-in nvidia-installer.It will install everything that is needed for you and should detect your hybrid-graphic(bumblebee)
control-centre –> drivers –> nvidia-driver-install
(I would not chose the backports-enabling during nvidia-installation, heard about some bugs, stick with the stretch, it’s 390.87-8)
That’s what you can try on antiX17, I’m sure it’s possible to get it to work.

Other choices would be to set the repos to testing, all software would be up to date, but testing is not everyone’s cup of tea.
Or you wait for antiX19 which will be buster,in the mean time have a look at MX-linux,which offers a lot of backported stuff anyway and in their test-repos.
Good luck, have fun !

[Moderator BobC]

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I have Dell I7’s one with the dual 4k graphics and the other with 1920, and only certain kernels with certain boot cheatcodes will work right. I had no luck with the nvidia or bumblebee stuff, but that’s been a couple years ago. Version of kernel is on the Dell XPS15-I7-7559 is critical. I haven’t tried the newest ones, but 4.9.0-6-amd64 works with boot cheatcode below

acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=Windows i915_preliminary_hw_support=1

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[Member stevesr0]

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thanks caprea and Bob C,

I don’t have the new laptop up and running at the moment, but I will check those references and try those things.

I saw two other recent postings on these forums that sounded like similar problems with 17.4. But probably not related.

stevesr0

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