No "loading your personal settings" screen and screensaver sluggish

CrownAmbassador · 01-30-2008, 11:29 AM

In order for me to have to enable my Visual Effects, I had to install xgl. But now, my screen saver is sluggish and the screen that loads between logging on and the desktop loading is not there. Its just a black screen with a cursor. What can I do to fix this?

budword · 01-31-2008, 10:41 PM

What hardware are you running ? CPU, amount of ram, video card. Your hardware might not be new enough or fast enough to run a 3D desktop. If you have an nvidia card, you might want to install their drivers, they are a bit faster than the free drivers.

David

CrownAmbassador · 02-01-2008, 02:15 AM

Hey budword,

My laptop is brand new and came with Vista Business and had no problem running the effects or games in there. Its a Dell D630 1.8 Duo Core Centrino, 2Gig Ram. Not too sure about the video card as its on board. I think a website I was on a few weeks ago that scanned my computer said its 64MB.

budword · 02-01-2008, 06:59 AM

Well, your machine is new enough that it shouldn't have trouble with the 3D effects. I think you are probably using the free driver. If you can post your hardware here we can figure out which driver would better suit you. I've googled a bit, and it seems your Dell could come with intel or nvidia video hardware. Do you know off hand which it is ?

David

CrownAmbassador · 02-01-2008, 07:28 AM

Um... No I don't! Lol! What command do I use for that? lspci?

If so here is it:

Code:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Contoller #4 (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
03:01.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. Cardbus bridge (rev 21)
03:01.4 FireWire (IEEE 1394): O2 Micro, Inc. Firewire (IEEE 1394) (rev 02)
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5755M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)
0c:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02)

CrownAmbassador · 02-05-2008, 01:21 PM

Any ideas?

budword · 02-05-2008, 08:51 PM

Ok, it's an intel for sure. So Nvidia won't help us here. Can you post your X11/xorg.conf here ? We need to know what the "Device" section says. I've googled a bit, and it looks like it should be this...

Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller"
Driver "intel"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection

Some people claim the get better performance without Xgl. Remove it with this command, restart X, and see if it helps. Here is the command to remove it...

sudo apt-get remove xserver-xgl

Try this too, just in case you have this funky driver installed....

sudo apt-get --purge remove xorg-driver-fglrx

It won't hurt anything if you don't have it, it'll just throw you an error.

Try installing this too...

sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-dri

Let us know how it goes...

David...

Oh, and don't forget to restart your X server.

CrownAmbassador · 02-22-2008, 07:13 AM

Hi budword,

Sorry it took me forever and a day to follow up on this. Got busy sorting some other Linux Related things out.

I did what you said, but I have the same problem. Without xserver-xgl the visual effects won't activate.

Here is the xorg.conf file:

Code:

# bare-bones XFree86 config to start the server in probe-only mode
Section "Files"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc"
        RgbPath         "/etc/X11/rgb.txt"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
        Option "AllowMouseOpenFail"
EndSection
Section "Module"
        Load    "bitmap"
        Load    "dbe"
        Load    "ddc"
        Load    "extmod"
        Load    "freetype"
        Load    "int10"
        Load    "record"
        Load    "vbe"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver          "keyboard"
        Option          "CoreKeyboard"
        Option          "XkbRules"      "xorg"
        Option          "XkbModel"      "pc104"
        Option          "XkbLayout"     "us"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Generic Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "CorePointer"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/mice"
        Option          "Protocol"              "ImPS/2"
EndSection
Section "Device"
dentifier      "Generic Device"
        Driver          "::DRIVER::"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
        Identifier      "Generic Monitor"
        Option          "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
        Identifier      "Default Screen"
        Device          "Generic Device"
        Monitor         "Generic Monitor"
        DefaultDepth    24
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           1
                Modes           "1024x768"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
  Depth           4
                Modes           "1024x768"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           8
                Modes           "1024x768"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           15
                Modes           "1024x768"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           16
                Modes           "1024x768"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           24
 Modes           "1024x768"
        EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier      "Default Layout"
        Screen          "Default Screen"
        InputDevice     "Generic Keyboard"
        InputDevice     "Generic Mouse"
EndSection

CrownAmbassador · 02-22-2008, 07:35 AM

Okay. I made a booboo! Lets put it this way... I'm in WINDOZE!!!

I tried toe change my display driver but clearly changed it to the wrong thing. Now when I start up it stops at "Running local boot scripts (etc/rc.local)

Will I be able to fix this with the live CD after I get home or is there a other way I can use to fix it now.

Thanks,
Conrad

CrownAmbassador · 02-22-2008, 01:11 PM

Okay, figured it out. For any one person like me out there that makes a mistake like this, here is how to solve it:

Run the recovery kernel and log in as root. Then run sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg and restart. Worked for me anyway.

Okay. So back to square one. What do you have in mind budword... Or anybody?

CrownAmbassador · 02-24-2008, 07:32 AM

Okay. It doesn't seem like anyone is still subscribed to this thread. So if anyone has a idea on what I can do here or if I need to update my display driver please tell me.

Thanks.