Intel Driver Issues
Hello all,
first time post and the first question :) I know enough to be dangerous with Linux but not enough to be useful. I am learning network penetration with Kali 1.0.7 64bit which if I understand is based of Debian and hit a wall with it with my laptop drivers. I have a Clevo W230ST that has a hybrid video card (IntelHD Graphics 4600 and a NVIDIA Geforce GTX 765M), as I understand that the nvidia optimus is not supported fully without using bumblebee. My main aim at the moment is to get the HDMI and VGA ports working so that I can extend the desktop and disable the laptop screen so that I can use two external monitors as my main screen. at the moment if I use the VGA and the HDMI port its just clones the laptop screen and I think this is driver related. lspci shows the following: Code:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Haswell DRAM Controller (rev 06) Want to the linux intel driver page and downloaded Libdrm - 2.4.52, Libva - 1.3.0, vaapi intel-driver - 1.3.0 and configured and installed. Confirmed with "lsmod | grep i9" that i915 module is loaded and when you load the intel driver in xorg is now lists alot more compatible hardware Code:
[ 6.979] (II) intel: Driver for Intel Integrated Graphics Chipsets: i810, long term I wish to replace my windows install with Debian with it and run a dual boot with Keli but before I start putting all that work in to in, I need to learn how to install the video drivers so I can use the system fully and make use of xfreerdp multiscreen so I can make use of works TS server. any help given would be most welcomed. |
In your menu under System Settings there should see Displays where you can enable the other monitors & set the default to turn off laptop monitor. Also uncheck "Clone Display".
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So if i am just using the Laptop screen it goes to 1080p but if I plug both monitors in and reboot it lowers itself to a res the monitors can support but its still only a clone. Did read about that I may need to upgrade xorg or and the kernel of Keli which I have not tried yet. going to give that a go after work. |
Getting lost in a sea off dependencies... ripping Kali off and switching to Debian, Kali is very custom and I think I need to go to a standard set up before trying to do it all at once :)
Once I am back up and running I will try again and post back if / when I get the intel drivers working. |
i think that was premature.
next time, try setting up your monitors with xrandr or one of its graphical frontends, e.g. arandr (you can drag the monitors around and change their resolutions). once you find a setting that suits you, you can make it so that it gets applied everytime you log in to your gui. |
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Got a bit of movement with Debian wheezy, after installing was in the same position as with Keli, which makes sense as Keli is based off debian wheezy, but This post here claims success with the testing version of debian (Jessie), so I have upgraded to Jessie and from looking here it appears I need the higher version of xserver-xorg-video-intel and looking at all it depends on new packages as well. Is they an easy way to upgrade to xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.21.15 where it will sort its dependencies and download and install or would it be better to try and build from source from Intel's website? |
Ok, So I finally resolved this, its a cop out but I have switched to Fedora 20 as it works out of the box, they was no reason for me choosing Debian apart from it matched what I was learning on with Keli.
Thanks for the help, at least now I can learn more then just video driver config :) |
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