intel i915 video driver

[Member zpimp]

i have a lenovo notebook with cpu i3-5010u with intel graphics hd5500
posted about this before, antix17 hangs at blackscreen, and it seems to be the video driver
like instructed before , i used boot parameter “3” to avoid loading x and cli-installer to install

then i changed the kernel to latest, 4.15 iirc, thinking will also update the video driver, but the problem persists

then i added testing repos and updated the xserver-xorg-video-intel
i had 2.99.917+git20161206-1
updated to 2.99.917+git20171229-1

still same problem
does anyone have an idea how to tackle this problem?

offtopic: i wanted to post a thread yesterday in tips’n’tricks, it showed me as latest poster in main forum, but i cant see the thread, it was about multiboot usb grub iso loop, didnt think the problem deserved its own thread

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hmm. Let me see what video chip is on my AntiX 17 full 64bit Dell I5 computer.

harry@biker:~
$ uname -a
Linux biker 4.15.9-antix.1-amd64-smp #2 SMP PREEMPT Tue Mar 13 17:58:48 EET 2018 x86_64 GNU/Linux

harry@biker:~
$ pinxi -G
Graphics: Card-1: Intel Core Processor Integrated Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel
Display Server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: intel resolution: 1366×768~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Ironlake Mobile v: 2.1 Mesa 13.0.6
harry@biker:~
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I had to nothing special with the F key cheat codes to arrive to this point. Updating my kernel was done through cli-aptiX. After my install.
No black screen for me. Did you md5sum check your iso before install?

Tips and tricks are for users that have already found a solution on how to overcome a problem or run a application. It is not for questions. I have moved questions in tips and tricks to New User because of that. If I misunderstood you grub sentence. Sorry. Maybe you got hit by the spam filters here on that thread.

Also. What version of AntiX are you running? Post the output of

inxi -Fxzr

Edit: starting to wonder if your laptop has one of dual video graphics chips. One on the processor. The other on the board. Like Intel and Nvidia.
That is why I am asing for the inxi readout. Easy way out is to disable ncvidia chip in bios. And just roll with the intel chip.

2nd edit: I saw your grub thread on how to section. Your thread is AOKAY there. I am just having trouble trying to trash the double post there.

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[Member zpimp]

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i only have one gpu
inxi -F says intel hd graphics 5500
display server x,org 1.19.2 drivers: modesetting (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
i used boot parameter “3” to prevent loading x

im running antix 17.1 386,i tried x64 as well
i checked md5 of both, also tried antix17 before, same result

antix15.1 boots
antix16.2 boots
antix17 boots only with safe video mode “quiet splash=v disable=lx nomodeset xorg=safe” wich apparently loads the vesa driver

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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You probably need the older version of xserver-xorg-video-intel.
Not sure you’ll be able to get it though.

You could try coping the following from your working antix16.2 to installed antiX-17 (note link is to 64 bit deb)

xserver-xorg-video-intel/filelist

You will probably have to either remove any /etc/X11/xorg.conf file (if there is one) or copy over the one on antiX-16.2 (again, if there is one).

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tried installing older version of xserver-xorg-video-intel from debian v2.21, wich said it needed xorg-videoabi-18 wich when i wanted to install it said it needed xorg-core something, for wich there is no install candidate

i updated the kernel to 4.15.14 still no go

got back on xserver-xorg-video-intel 2.99 and deleted /etc/X11/xorg.conf.in the only xorg file i could find there

still no go
will try to copy files from antix 16.2

any idea what is happening, i really have no idea what is going on 🙂
is this driver part of the kernel, so if i update kernel i update the driver?
does xserver-xorg-video-intel has something to do with systemd

debian live boots fine with same package version 2.99.917+git20161206-1
on debian inxi -F says – “drivers: modesetting (unloaded:fbdev,vesa)”
does this mean the i915 driver os loaded? on antix16 it says “drivers: intel (unloaded:modesetting,fbdev,vesa)”

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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It seems like you need older not newer intel drivers. They don’t appear anymore in stretch and later.

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copied the files manually from live antix16.2 to installed antix17.1
https://packages.debian.org/jessie/amd64/xserver-xorg-video-intel/filelist
still no go

so
antix16.2/xserver-xorg-video-intel_2.21.15-2+b2 – works
antix17.1/xserver-xorg-video-intel_2.99.917+git20161206-1 – doesent work
debian9.4.0/xserver-xorg-video-intel_2.99.917+git20161206-1 – works

and if this wasnt enough, i wanted to test some performance with glxgears
antix16.2 vblank_mode=0 glxgears ~ 240fps (intel 2.21 driver)
antix17.1 vblank_mode=0 glxgears ~ 900fps (nomodeset – vesa)
debian9.4.0 vblank_mode=0 glxgears ~ 6700fps (intel 2.99 driver)
i asumed intel driver would get more fps than vesa

[Moderator caprea]

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You could try to force the intel-driver on antiX17 like shown here in the first example
https://mxlinux.org/wiki/hardware/intel-video-driver

[Member zpimp]

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i dont have that file there only
upon creation it said
waited 2020ms for i915.ko driver to load
no devices detected
no screens found
edit:
after removing nomodeset from grub, it booted to desktop
i had the time to check inxi -F and showed the driver as being intel
and vblank_mode=0 showed +6k fps
in about a minute or less, the system froze
even alt+sysrq+e didnt unfroze it. i can change to other terminals but cant type/login
caps lock is lit, and doesent change

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Don’t know if this will help but take a look here: 3rd post from the end on pg 1

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=250485

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[Member zpimp]

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it seems this has kinda work
https://mxlinux.org/wiki/hardware/intel-video-driver

if i keep it busy it seems to work

if i dont do nothing it freezes, seems to have something to do woth powersaving, powerstates
if i close all programs, in about a minute it freezes

1st edit:
after searching a bit i found https://askubuntu.com/questions/761706/ubuntu-15-10-and-16-04-keep-freezing-randomly
so i added kernel parameter “intel_idle.max_cstate=1”

its been 3 mins no freeze, will test some more,
is it normal to have constant disk activity 1-2MB ?

2nd edit: after searching some more and setting “intel_idle.max_cstate=0”
still getting errors in syslog i tried to change driver to modesetting, with no success
i tried to make /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-modesetting.conf
Section “Device”
Identifier “Intel Graphics”
Driver “modesetting”
Option “AccelMethod” “glamor”
Option “DRI” “3”
EndSection

it goes blackscreen
can you give me some hints on this modesetting driver , i read that its a fallback if you uninstall the intel driver, but cant seem to get it working

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Normally, if you uninstall the intel-driver
sudo apt-get remove xserver-xorg-video-intel

and delete the /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-modesetting.conf or intel.conf you created
and delete any xorg.conf in /etc/X11

the system should boot automatically the modesetting driver.

Are you still using any boot-parameters? Because I think the video=safe and the nomodesetting are working against the modesetting driver and the vesa-driver is used.
Also if you can make it to a console during boot you can look with inxi -G which driver is used.

[Member zpimp]

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mx-linux-17.1-386 boots fine with the same driver, like debian
inxi -G from mxlinux:

Graphics:  Card: Intel HD Graphics 5500
           Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.2 ) drivers: modesetting (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1366x768@60.02hz
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 5500 (Broadwell GT2) x86/MMX/SSE2
           version: 4.5 Mesa 13.0.6

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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Is the anything in /etc/X11/xorg.conf on MX or in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d?

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[Member zpimp]

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in /etc/X11/ there is only xorg.conf.in
in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ i only have 10-evdev.conf and synaptics.conf

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