troubles with 7.3 on intel graphics

[boblethai]

Hi

since last 7.3 update, I cannot get the intel xorg driver working on my Clevo laptop.

There was an update of the kernel and also from intel x11 driver:


** Mis à jour  xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.99.917-8.20150615.el7.x86_64 @base
** Mise à jour 2.99.917-22.20151206.el7.x86_64 @base



Graphic card is :
lspci -kvvnn -s 00:02.0 ->

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0416] (rev 06) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: CLEVO/KAPOK Computer Device [1558:5455]
...
Kernel modules: i915
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To have xorg working, I had to change driver with vesa in my xorg.conf (before update, it was working with intel).

If I set intel, I get in Xorg.log:

[ 28.998] (II) intel: Driver for Intel(R) Integrated Graphics Chipsets:
i810, i810-dc100, i810e, i815, i830M, 845G, 854, 852GM/855GM, 865G,
915G, E7221 (i915), 915GM, 945G, 945GM, 945GME, Pineview GM,
Pineview G, 965G, G35, 965Q, 946GZ, 965GM, 965GME/GLE, G33, Q35, Q33,
GM45, 4 Series, G45/G43, Q45/Q43, G41, B43
[ 28.998] (II) intel: Driver for Intel(R) HD Graphics: 2000-6000
[ 28.998] (II) intel: Driver for Intel(R) Iris(TM) Graphics: 5100, 6100
[ 28.998] (II) intel: Driver for Intel(R) Iris(TM) Pro Graphics: 5200, 6200, P6300
[ 28.998] (++) using VT number 4

[ 29.035] (EE) No devices detected.

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I could live with vesa, but the most painfull trouble is that I cannot set mplayer to fullscreen anymore. xvinfo tells me:

[root@budapest ~]# xvinfo
X-Video Extension version 2.2
screen #0
no adaptors present

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One last thing I noticed: lshw tells me the device as unclaimed:
[root@budapest ~]# lshw -c display
*-display UNCLAIMED
description: VGA compatible controller
product: 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
version: 06
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:f7800000-f7bfffff memory:e0000000-efffffff ioport:f000(size=64)
[root@budapest ~]#

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Does anybody have any idea how I can sort this out ?

Anyway, merry christmas to everyone.

[larry_walker]

Hi,

I think you need to (re)install the video-card driver.
In this case, take a look here:
https://01.org/linuxgraphics/downloads

For the sMplayer problem, you need do go to "Options"|"Preferences" then in the "General" sub-form, go to "Video" tab and in the "Output driver" section, choose the "x11" driver. Nevertheless, after installing the Intel driver, you may try "fbdev" or "fbdev2".

[TrevorH]

Try setting the intel driver to use UXA instead of the default of SNA. It's an AccelMethod line in your xorg.conf and google knows more than I do...

[boblethai]

Hi guys thank you for your answers.

@larry_walker: I really would prefer stay in line with centos official repositories. I do not remember to have used something else when I did my initial install of Centos 7 (more than 1 year ago). But in this intel page what would you suggect to use ? Intel Graphics Update Tool for Linux* OS v2.0.3 ?


Regarding mplayer, in fact it already switches automativcally to -vo X11:

[bruno@budapest Parenthèse - 2016]$ mplayer "zzz.mkv"
MPlayer SVN-r37150-snapshot-4.4.7 (C) 2000-2014 MPlayer Team

Playing zzz.mkv.
libavformat version 55.37.100 (internal)
libavformat file format detected.
[lavf] stream 0: audio (aac), -aid 0, -alang fre
[lavf] stream 1: video (h264), -vid 0
VIDEO: [H264] 720x392 0bpp 25.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
title: http://www.ab.cc
encoder: libebml v1.3.1 + libmatroska v1.4.2
creation_time: 2016-12-21 16:07:43
Load subtitles in ./
[VO_XV] It seems there is no Xvideo support for your video card available.
[VO_XV] Run 'xvinfo' to verify its Xv support and read
[VO_XV] DOCS/HTML/en/video.html#xv!
[VO_XV] See 'mplayer -vo help' for other (non-xv) video out drivers.
[VO_XV] Try -vo x11.
...
Movie-Aspect is 1.84:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [x11] 720x392 => 720x392 Planar YV12

@TrevorH: the pb is that the device is even not detected (anyway, I tried with your suggestion, as in this page https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/In ... Setting.29 it is stated that:
"You may need to indicate Option "AccelMethod" when creating a configuration file, even just to set it to the default method (currently "sna"); otherwise, X may crash.". So I tried, but the result is:
[ 78.710] (II) Module intel: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 78.710] compiled for 1.17.2, module version = 2.99.917
[ 78.710] Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[ 78.710] ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 19.0
[ 78.710] (II) intel: Driver for Intel(R) Integrated Graphics Chipsets:
i810, i810-dc100, i810e, i815, i830M, 845G, 854, 852GM/855GM, 865G,
915G, E7221 (i915), 915GM, 945G, 945GM, 945GME, Pineview GM,
Pineview G, 965G, G35, 965Q, 946GZ, 965GM, 965GME/GLE, G33, Q35, Q33,
GM45, 4 Series, G45/G43, Q45/Q43, G41, B43
[ 78.711] (II) intel: Driver for Intel(R) HD Graphics: 2000-6000
[ 78.711] (II) intel: Driver for Intel(R) Iris(TM) Graphics: 5100, 6100
[ 78.711] (II) intel: Driver for Intel(R) Iris(TM) Pro Graphics: 5200, 6200, P6300
[ 78.711] (--) using VT number 2

[ 78.779] (EE) No devices detected.
[ 78.779] (EE)
Fatal server error:
[ 78.779] (EE) no screens found(EE)
[ 78.779] (EE)

[TrevorH]

Can you post all of that log file to http://pastebin.centos.org and then post the link here

[boblethai]

Hi TrevorH!

sorry for delay, I was off for a couple of days ...

this is it: http://pastebin.centos.org/60966/

[TrevorH]

What happens if you rename your xorg.conf file and start up without one present at all?

[boblethai]

This is what I did, I ran X :0 -configure and it created a new xorg.conf with vesa as a driver:
X is working, but not anymore with intel driver.

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
FontPath "catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d"
FontPath "built-ins"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "glx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
EndSection

Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz",
### <percent>: "<f>%"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>]
#Option "DefaultRefresh" # [<bool>]
#Option "ModeSetClearScreen" # [<bool>]
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "vesa"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

My problem is that now I cannot get mplayer in fullscreen, it complains about xv not being present. I suppose it is due to vesa driver ?

[boblethai]

And also, I do not know anything about these module parameters, but in case:

/sys/module/i915/parameters/disable_display
N
/sys/module/i915/parameters/disable_power_well
-1
/sys/module/i915/parameters/edp_vswing
0
/sys/module/i915/parameters/enable_cmd_parser
1
/sys/module/i915/parameters/enable_dc
-1
/sys/module/i915/parameters/enable_execlists
-1
/sys/module/i915/parameters/enable_fbc
-1
/sys/module/i915/parameters/enable_guc_submission
N
/sys/module/i915/parameters/enable_hangcheck
Y
/sys/module/i915/parameters/enable_ips
1
/sys/module/i915/parameters/enable_ppgtt
-1
/sys/module/i915/parameters/enable_psr
-1
/sys/module/i915/parameters/enable_rc6
-1
/sys/module/i915/parameters/fastboot
N
/sys/module/i915/parameters/guc_log_level
-1
/sys/module/i915/parameters/invert_brightness
0
/sys/module/i915/parameters/load_detect_test
N
/sys/module/i915/parameters/lvds_channel_mode
0
/sys/module/i915/parameters/lvds_use_ssc
-1
/sys/module/i915/parameters/mmio_debug
0
/sys/module/i915/parameters/modeset
0
/sys/module/i915/parameters/nuclear_pageflip
N
/sys/module/i915/parameters/panel_ignore_lid
1
/sys/module/i915/parameters/prefault_disable
N
/sys/module/i915/parameters/preliminary_hw_support
0
/sys/module/i915/parameters/reset
Y
/sys/module/i915/parameters/semaphores
-1
/sys/module/i915/parameters/use_mmio_flip
0
/sys/module/i915/parameters/vbt_sdvo_panel_type
-1
/sys/module/i915/parameters/verbose_state_checks
Y

[TrevorH]

I don't think it should really be necessary but you could try creating a .conf file in /etc/modprobe.d containing

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options i915 preliminary_hw_support=1
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and see if that helps.