GIGABYTE Z87 HD3 help please

lindebuxian · 10-20-2015, 03:50 PM

Hi

Debian Jessie fully updated with xfce.

I have the gigabyte z87 hd3 motherboard but am unsure if bios settings are correct and all correct drivers are installed etc. Video seems to tear eg youtube and scrolling web pages I see some tearing or something very similar. (I dont mean smooth scrolling)

I am using the onboard GFX with DVI connection.

Should I have EFI and ACPI enabled?

Looking at the gigabyte website it says to download specific chipset drivers for individual distro's. Would apt get this automatically or do I have to find a deb or something?

dmesg does not show any obvious errors in red like It did when my realtek network drivers were not installed.

Any help will be greatly appreciated

ondoho · 10-20-2015, 04:11 PM

please post the output of

Code:

lspci -k | grep -iA5 vga

lindebuxian · 10-20-2015, 04:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ondoho

please post the output of

Code:

lspci -k | grep -iA5 vga

Hi ondoho

Here is the ouput

Code:

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 06)
        Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Device d000
        Kernel driver in use: i915
00:03.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio Controller (rev 06)
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 2010
        Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel

ondoho · 10-21-2015, 12:49 AM

that looks ok.

Quote:

Originally Posted by lindebuxian

Debian Jessie fully updated with xfce.

what exactly does that mean?
did the problem start occuring after that? if so, please describe the process in detail.

Quote:

Looking at the gigabyte website it says to download specific chipset drivers for individual distro's. Would apt get this automatically or do I have to find a deb or something?

can you tell us more about this?
does your board have hybrid graphics?
i don't really see an alternative to i915.

Quote:

dmesg does not show any obvious errors in red like It did when my realtek network drivers were not installed.

i never heard of dmesg using colors; maybe you shoudl grep instead:

Code:

dmesg|grep -E 'rror|E|warn|fail'

you should also look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log and maybe one or 2 other logs from that directory (wasn't there 'errors' and 'messages').

describing the problem, both activities are very resource intensive. if hardware accel is working at that point, i'm not sure if your gpu is capable of it.
e.g. the scrolling of webpages, do you experience that it happens mostly on pages with a lot of bling, like tinted backgrounds, shadows, rounded corners?

is your system ok otherwise?

lindebuxian · 10-21-2015, 04:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ondoho

that looks ok.

what exactly does that mean?
did the problem start occuring after that? if so, please describe the process in detail.

can you tell us more about this?
does your board have hybrid graphics?
i don't really see an alternative to i915.

Sorry this means its a clean install of debian and i have run apt update upgrade

Graphics is on board intel Integrated Graphics Processor - Intel® HD Graphics support:

Quote:

i never heard of dmesg using colors; maybe you shoudl grep instead:

Code:

dmesg|grep -E 'rror|E|warn|fail'

you should also look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log and maybe one or 2 other logs from that directory (wasn't there 'errors' and 'messages').

I think what I meant was that looking at the verbose output when booting errors appear in red. I then checked dmesg sorry for confusion

Quote:

describing the problem, both activities are very resource intensive. if hardware accel is working at that point, i'm not sure if your gpu is capable of it.
e.g. the scrolling of webpages, do you experience that it happens mostly on pages with a lot of bling, like tinted backgrounds, shadows, rounded corners?

is your system ok otherwise?

I get it with most web pages to some degree, even linuxquestions but yes blingy web pages are worse, for example www.space.com is very bad.
I do not get this issue with windows at all so am confident the graphics card is ok
After a bit more searching and reading it appears that it could be Xorg server and possibly a compositor issue.
I also tried linux mint on a totally different machine last night and that has the same issue.
But even watching HD youtube videos the quality is nowhere near what I get on windows

ondoho · 10-23-2015, 11:53 AM

you answered my post as a human being, and it's nice to have this chat, but from a computer problem fixing point of view there's very little in your answer.

please provide what i suggested in post #4.

additionally, please provide the complete output of

Code:

lspci -k

and also do this:
open a terminal window, type "top". it is a cli taskmanager.
leave that open and running.
now try to reproduce the problem, and have a look at what is eating your resources (cpu mostly, maybe also ram).
what insights you get from this, share with us.

also try to disable compositing (window manager settings).

and try to research the problem yourself, maybe your gpu requires additional setup on linux.