Intel graphics


Forum: X and Fluxbox
Topic: Intel graphics
started by: Sabien

Posted by Sabien on Jan. 03 2009,04:16
I'm having the same problem as a lot of other people. When I boot DSL I get Undefined user mode. When I do boot up, the colors horrible. I've tried everything that I've seen in the forums. Framebuffer mode, dsl vga=normal, and I've ran dsl 2.
At command prompt I typed
mydsl-load Xi810.tar.gz testing, when its done downloading, and I boot using Xi810, it gets to the desktop with the mouse as an X, then just hangs there. If someone can help me, thanks in advance.
I'm using v.4.4.9 and I have Intel graphics on a i810 system.
I really like DSL, it makes my old PC run nice. I want to do a full HD install to replace WinME, but not if I can't fix this.

Posted by JohnJS on Jan. 16 2009,17:09
Still trying to get DSL  ver 4.4.10 to work on my P4 with Intel video (Brookdale 82845G/Gl).
With xorg72.uci and following steps with xorg72.setup.tar.gz
I end up with a seemingly correct resolution but the mouse is frozen and torsmo shows cpu running continuously at 99 to 100%.
So far can only use 640x480x16 setting.
Any one have any success with Intel video cards?

Edit 2/10/09.
Finally got correct resolution, color and mouse working. Though the resolution is very high (12xxx) and fonts are very small  but that's a minor point.
Main concern is that 'torsmo' shows cpu running between 99 and 100% continuously. Will this be a problem?.

PS: added noapm at boot.

Posted by florian on Jan. 20 2009,22:40
Could this helps?
< http://www.geocities.com/stomljen/ >

This tool helped me to get full (800x480) resolution on XVesa on Eee PC 701, while without it I was blocked ay 640x480. But this was with another linux distro I installed, haven't tried with DSL.

Posted by JohnJS on Feb. 14 2009,00:10
Posting this to bring it current.
Please see my earlier post re cpu running at 99-100%.
Any solution or this is a major problem?

Posted by WDef on Feb. 14 2009,19:53
It's a problem.  Your cpu is thrashing doing something. First step: open a shell and type top.  That will show which processes are using the most cpu - post what they are here.
Posted by JohnJS on Feb. 15 2009,17:03
Hi WDef. Result of 'top'.
Mem: 193864K used, 60612K free, 0K shrd, 3292K buff, 138612K cached
Load average: 2.91 1.56 0.63  (Status: S=sleeping R=running, W=waiting)
 PID USER     STATUS   RSS  PPID %CPU %MEM COMMAND
1133 dsl      R       2308     1 33.6  0.9 dfm
1136 dsl      R       2308     1 33.0  0.9 dfm
1118 dsl      R       2264     1 32.4  0.8 dfm
1089 root     S      18512  1088  1.0  7.2 X
 457 dsl      S       1856     1  0.0  0.7 bash
1097 dsl      S       1816  1088  0.0  0.7 jwm
1161 dsl      S       1764     1  0.0  0.6 aterm
1162 dsl      S       1492  1161  0.0  0.5 bash
1073 dsl      S       1084   457  0.0  0.4 startx
1121 dsl      S       1076     1  0.0  0.4 torsmo
1112 dsl      S       1012     1  0.0  0.3 dpid
1123 dsl      S        880  1112  0.0  0.3 file.dpi
1125 dsl      S        880  1123  0.0  0.3 file.dpi
1165 dsl      R        764  1162  0.0  0.2 top
 302 root     S        744     1  0.0  0.2 pump
1088 dsl      S        648  1073  0.0  0.2 xinit
   1 root     S         72     0  0.0  0.0 init
   3 root     SWN        0     1  0.0  0.0 ksoftirqd_CPU0
 589 root     SW         0     1  0.0  0.0 usb-storage-0
   2 root     SW         0     1  0.0  0.0 keventd
   4 root     SW         0     1  0.0  0.0 kswapd
   5 root     SW         0     1  0.0  0.0 bdflush
   6 root     SW         0     1  0.0  0.0 kupdated
  12 root     SW         0     1  0.0  0.0 khubd
 590 root     SW         0     1  0.0  0.0 scsi_eh_1
1160 dsl      Z          0  1097  0.0  0.0 jwm

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