Problem with video

harishbayyavarapu · 09-06-2010, 04:14 AM

What is the problem with the latest xorg drivers?
Because when I was using fedora 12 I believe it was working fine but as soon as I updated to fedora 13 it stopped working.

I am not sure of what to do. Is there any other good distribution which will support my graphics driver with compiz and everything.

I tried SUSE 11.2 and it was horrible. I tried ubuntu 10.04 and it had same problem with the video drivers.

John VV · 09-06-2010, 07:05 AM

? how did you update from fedora 12 to 13 ?
a full 100% clean reinstall as recommended by the fedora developers .

Quote:

which will support my graphics driver with compiz and everything.

on a laptop NO compiz was meant to run on a full 3d card , some higher end laptops can run it .
what EXACT brand of laptop is it and the full hardware specs would help .

harishbayyavarapu · 09-06-2010, 03:59 PM

I updated through yum not a clean install definitely.

My laptop is an inspiron 1545 and the specs are
Intel core 2 duo T60 processor
4GB RAM
Intel 4500 Graphics chipset.
I purchased this around december 2008 when this model was first released.

Quote:

[harish@localhost ~]$ lspci -v
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07)
Subsystem: Dell Device 02aa
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Dell Device 02aa
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 29
Memory at f6c00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
I/O ports at efe8 [size=8]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: i915
Kernel modules: i915

00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
Subsystem: Dell Device 02aa
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Memory at f6b00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Dell Device 02aa
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 20
I/O ports at 6f60 [size=32]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Dell Device 02aa
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 21
I/O ports at 6f80 [size=32]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Dell Device 02aa
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22
I/O ports at 6fa0 [size=32]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Dell Device 02aa
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22
Memory at fed1c400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device 02aa
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 31
Memory at f6afc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=0b, subordinate=0b, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 00002000-00002fff
Memory behind bridge: f0200000-f03fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000f0400000-00000000f05fffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport

00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=0c, subordinate=0c, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 00003000-00003fff
Memory behind bridge: f6900000-f69fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000f0600000-00000000f07fffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport

00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=09, subordinate=09, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 0000d000-0000dfff
Memory behind bridge: f6800000-f68fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000f0800000-00000000f09fffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport

00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=0d, subordinate=0e, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 0000c000-0000cfff
Memory behind bridge: f6600000-f67fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000f0000000-00000000f01fffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport

00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Dell Device 02aa
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 20
I/O ports at 6f00 [size=32]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Dell Device 02aa
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 21
I/O ports at 6f20 [size=32]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Dell Device 02aa
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22
I/O ports at 6f40 [size=32]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Dell Device 02aa
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 20
Memory at fed1c000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93) (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=32
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device 02aa
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel modules: iTCO_wdt

00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
Subsystem: Dell Device 02aa
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 28
I/O ports at 6e70 [size=8]
I/O ports at 6e78 [size=4]
I/O ports at 6e80 [size=8]
I/O ports at 6e88 [size=4]
I/O ports at 6ea0 [size=32]
Memory at fed1c800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ahci

00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device 02aa
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 18
Memory at f6afbf00 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
I/O ports at 1100 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: i801_smbus
Kernel modules: i2c-i801

09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8040 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller (rev 13)
Subsystem: Dell Device 02aa
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 30
Memory at f68fc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
I/O ports at de00 [size=256]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: sky2
Kernel modules: sky2

0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN Mini-Card
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
Memory at f69fc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: wl
Kernel modules: wl, ssb

John VV · 09-06-2010, 05:31 PM

as per the compiz how to / guid on the fedoraforum
"compiz-0.8.5 repo for F10, F11 & F12 + guide for the official fedora packages"
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=173317
"xorg.conf options for the intel, nv, radeon & radeonhd drivers ( should help graphics lag and CPU load )"

"add to the device section"

Code:

   Option          "AccelMethod" "EXA"  
   Option          "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"

and posting the full xorg.0.log would have helped
there is a bunch missing from what you posted
reboot and it will make a new log .

harishbayyavarapu · 09-06-2010, 06:17 PM

This is the full output of Xorg.0.log and I added the given lines to the device section of my xorg.conf

Seems like I cannot post the complete log, so I am attaching the file.

adamk75 · 09-06-2010, 07:17 PM

So what, exactly, is the problem you are having? Your Xorg log file doesn't show anything out of the ordinary.

Adam

John VV · 09-06-2010, 10:06 PM

the log looks fine
turn off the desktop effects when watching a video on hulu

hulu is using flash so what flash do you have installed
the recommended using yum
http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mj...f13.html#flash

harishbayyavarapu · 09-06-2010, 11:13 PM

@Adam,

I cannot watch the flash videos in full screen. I have to disable the compositing to watch the videos in full screen whether its hulu or youtube. I cannot watch any of the flash videos in fullscreen.

@John,
Yes I had installed it using yum and its the latest one I have.

I am enthusiastic to learn Linux, so which sections should I see in the Xorg.0.log to know which properties have an unusual behaviour.