• From: Narnia
  • Registered: 2010-07-12
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Topic: Low resolution with Intel Pineview graphics card

Hello,

I just installed Crunchbang on my sister's netbook, a Toshiba NB305. After upgrading the kernel, everything works fine except for the graphics card: I can only run at 800x600 instead of the native 1024x600. I've tried updating/upgrading, the restricted drivers manager (Jockey), and Googling, but can't fix it, so I was wondering if you could help me out.

Here's lspci:

$ lspci | grep Display
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Pineview Integrated Graphics Controller

If you want any other information, I can post it.

Thanks in advance!

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Re: Low resolution with Intel Pineview graphics card

Was it CrunchBang 9.04? If so, you could try updating xorg:

https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/x-updates

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  • From: Narnia
  • Registered: 2010-07-12
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Re: Low resolution with Intel Pineview graphics card

anonymous wrote:

Was it CrunchBang 9.04?

Yes.

If so, you could try updating xorg:

https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/x-updates

I tried that (that is, I added the PPA and then mass-updated the system, which involved a lot of xorg updates. That's all that's required, right?) But it didn't improve the resolution.

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  • From: Copenhagen
  • Registered: 2010-07-09
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Re: Low resolution with Intel Pineview graphics card

Hi

You could try following this approach to manually add a mode with higher resolution. It works for me in Statler in virtualbox.

If those lines work for you, you can then add them to your autostart.sh .

  • From: Narnia
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Re: Low resolution with Intel Pineview graphics card

julietKiloRomeo wrote:

Hi

You could try following this approach to manually add a mode with higher resolution. It works for me in Statler in virtualbox.

If those lines work for you, you can then add them to your autostart.sh .

$ xrandr | grep maximum
Screen 0: minimum 800 x 600, current 800 x 600, maximum 800 x 600

:(

And the guide said that there was no way to increase the maximum...but I feel like that can't be true.

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  • From: Dusk Till Dawn
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Re: Low resolution with Intel Pineview graphics card

can you post the output of 

cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
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  • From: Narnia
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Re: Low resolution with Intel Pineview graphics card

Of course.


$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# Note that some configuration settings that could be done previously
# in this file, now are automatically configured by the server and settings
# here are ignored.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
#   sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "Device"
    Identifier    "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier    "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier    "Default Screen"
    Monitor        "Configured Monitor"
    Device        "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

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  • From: Dusk Till Dawn
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Re: Low resolution with Intel Pineview graphics card

ok, and the output of 

lspci -k | grep -A3 VGA

please

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  • From: Narnia
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Re: Low resolution with Intel Pineview graphics card

No problem.

$ lspci -k | grep -A3 VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Pineview Integrated Graphics Controller
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Pineview Integrated Graphics Controller
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
    Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel

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Re: Low resolution with Intel Pineview graphics card

neutral it is already in use... a pity.

without warranty, but probably this
http://intellinuxgraphics.org/2010Q2.html or/and
http://intellinuxgraphics.org/2009Q4.html
is the driver which would work as it should (everything >  xf86-video-intel 2.10.0)

Last edited by machinebacon (2010-07-13 15:36:33)

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Re: Low resolution with Intel Pineview graphics card

machinebacon wrote:

neutral it is already in use... a pity.

without warranty, but probably this
http://intellinuxgraphics.org/2010Q2.html or/and
http://intellinuxgraphics.org/2009Q4.html
is the driver which would work as it should (everything >  xf86-video-intel 2.10.0)

Sorry to ask a dumb question, but...what do I do about this?

$ ./configure
<snip>
No package 'xorg-server' found
No package 'xproto' found
No package 'fontsproto' found

And none of those packages are in the repositories. Although xserver-xorg is...does that count as xorg-server? tongue

Last edited by Tiomaidh (2010-07-13 15:50:57)

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  • From: Dusk Till Dawn
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Re: Low resolution with Intel Pineview graphics card

try to install:

sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-dev

this should be good.

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  • From: Narnia
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Re: Low resolution with Intel Pineview graphics card

machinebacon wrote:

try to install:

sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-dev

this should be good.

That solved the previous error message, but now it wants 'x11' and I can't decide which specific x11 package it means.

By the way, thanks for the helpful and quick replies. I really appreciate it.

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  • From: Dusk Till Dawn
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Re: Low resolution with Intel Pineview graphics card

It's okay smile
Did you see the documentation here: http://intellinuxgraphics.org/install.html

3. 2D only driver build

In order to test or use the latest Intel X driver, you typically don't need to upgrade other components of the graphics stack, like Mesa or the DRM drivers. In order to build the driver, you'll need several development packages installed (list taken from the Fedora build requirements for the driver):
- autoconf
- automake
- libtool
- hwdata (for PCI IDs)
- xorg-x11-server-Xorg >= 1.3.0.0-6
- xorg-x11-server-sdk >= 1.3.0.0-6
- libXvMC-devel
- mesa-libGL-devel >= 6.5-9
- libdrm-devel >= 2.0-1

If these packages are available, building should be as simple as:
$ ./autogen
$ make
$ sudo -c "make install"

Note that depending on your distribution, you may need extra flags, like --prefix=, --exec-prefix=, --libdir=, --sysconfdir=, etc. depending on where your X server is installed (see ./configure --help for details).

Once the new driver is installed, make sure your xorg.conf file (often in /etc/X11/) points at the new driver, which should be called "intel" or "i810" assuming the "make install" step created the appropriate symlinks.

xorg-x11-server-sdk seems to be Fedora only, so it won't be needed. Not sure, though....

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  • From: Narnia
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Re: Low resolution with Intel Pineview graphics card

It yelled at me for having libdrm's version be too low, so I found a PPA and upgraded it. Now I get this priceless error message:

Requested 'libdrm >= 2.4.1' but version of libdrm is 2.4.5

...apparently 2.4.1 > 2.4.5 hmm

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  • From: Dusk Till Dawn
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Re: Low resolution with Intel Pineview graphics card

yeah, could also be 2.4.10 wink

you find it here, probably even with the needed x-server files: https://launchpad.net/~glasen/+archive/intel-driver

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  • From: Narnia
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Re: Low resolution with Intel Pineview graphics card

That helped, now ./configure executed succesfully. But nothing can ever be easy...now make is throwing an error that my Google-fu can't solve:

  CC     uxa.lo
  CC     uxa-accel.lo
uxa-accel.c: In function ‘format_for_depth’:
uxa-accel.c:50: error: ‘PICT_x2r10g10b10’ undeclared (first use in this function)
uxa-accel.c:50: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
uxa-accel.c:50: error: for each function it appears in.)

[note to random Googlers from the future: if it says you need 'xf86driproto', install x11proto-xf86dri-dev. If it says you need 'glproto', install 'x11proto-gl-dev`.]

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  • From: Dusk Till Dawn
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Re: Low resolution with Intel Pineview graphics card

neutral
looks weird.
give https://launchpad.net/~glasen/+archive/ … 1_i386.deb a try. Maybe this already solves all troubles.

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  • From: Narnia
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Re: Low resolution with Intel Pineview graphics card

It requires xserver-xorg-core >= 2.16.99.900. I found a deb for that from Ubuntu's Lucid packages, but can't install it because it conflicts with just about every X package I have installed.

(Like I said, nothing can every be easy)

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Re: Low resolution with Intel Pineview graphics card

hm, seems we came to a dead end. the next version would be 17... everything older doesn't support this Pineview card, if I understand it right.
I think I can't help you with it, sorry. sad Have you thought of installing something newer than 9.04 - maybe Statler, or if you stay with Ubuntu base: easypeasy (if it is a netbook), Mint Isodora, etc.?
Or you live with 800x600, set the fonts on a smaller dpi, get http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=101531 this theme to save screen estate...

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Re: Low resolution with Intel Pineview graphics card

Darn. Well, thanks for all the help.

I'll talk to my sister and see if she'd rather go with Ubuntu Netbook Remix or Statler. Several people I've talked to said that Statler was much more stable than you'd think for Alpha software--I take it this is true?

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Re: Low resolution with Intel Pineview graphics card

Statler is excellent, I haven't encountered any problems with it yet. I mean, dear Sis will probably not notice a difference about the things under the hood, but the desktop and the way of usage is quite different between UNR and Openbox. Probably the XFCE version of Statler would fit her better if she wants things happening automatically (especially the auto-updating menu, or desktop icons)
I had used easypeasy (that's like UNR) on my netbook and it is a typical Gnome resource hog. But everything has its place. I really love #! Openbox but honestly: I would not install it for my mother smile Hard to make a decision - I would take XFCE Statler. A change to openbox later is just a matter of minutes.

Last edited by machinebacon (2010-07-13 18:23:23)

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  • From: Narnia
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Re: Low resolution with Intel Pineview graphics card

Yeah, Gnome makes me nervous too. I guess I knew that UNR used Gnome, but it didn't hit me until you pointed it out.

She has been using Openbox rather successfully for about a week or so. She's already comfortable with launching programs with dmenu or keyboard shortcuts, changing keyboard shortcuts with rc.xml, installing stuff with aptitude*, and adding stuff to the menu--if she even wants to (she likes her dmenu). So given a choice between Openbox and a UI/UX that neither of us is used to (Xfce), I think we'll try out Openbox first.

* Note: If she ever does something at the CLI or with a config file, she calls herself a l33+ |-|4><0r....sigh smile

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Re: Low resolution with Intel Pineview graphics card

Good CLI-Sister!:D Do the Statler OpenBox! Good luck, and if there is a problem you know where to ask smile

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Last edited by machinebacon (2010-07-13 18:34:31)

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  • From: Narnia
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Re: Low resolution with Intel Pineview graphics card

Haha, I'm actually pretty proud of her.

I don't know why I spent so much time putting up with ubuntuforums.org and reddit.com/r/linuxquestions--I'm very impressed with these ones. I may just have to start lurking here instead...

HTTP says it'll be done in 12 minutes, which is good enough for me.

Now back to work...I just got a 279,000-line piece of software that I have to start understanding. Eek.

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