How to Change From SNA to UXA Acceleration Methods

[Federico Leoni]

Lee,

would you gently post your at least your video configuration?

lspci  -mm | grep VGA
sudo lshw -c video

Thanks,

F.

2013/11/7 Lee Gold <leegold at operamail.com>:
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013, at 05:20 AM, NikTh wrote:
>>
>> On 07/11/2013 02:04 μμ, Lee Gold wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Using Lubuntu 13.10.  Latest Flash plugin from repositories.
>> >
>> > I have an Intel Video Chip integrated on my motherboard. It's
>> > problematic and there are web pages devoted on how to make it work
>> > in Linux. It works OK with Lubuntu except for playing flash on
>> > youtube. For example, when trying to play youtube the video appears
>> > only green and purple and compressed into a small box. This is a
>> > know bug and a "fix" is to change the newer default acceleration
>> > method from SNA to the older UXA, then everthing works OK.
>> >
>> > The only way I know to do this is to generate an xorg.conf file,
>> > copy it to /etc/X11 and uncomment the Accelmethod line and edit it
>> > to "uxa", then reboot. I did this in Xubuntu previously and it
>> > worked. But I cannot get it to work in Lubuntu 13.10. I turn off X
>> > and do # X -Confugre to make an xorg.conf file and do as cited
>> > above, put it in /etc/X11. But I either get a desktop with a very
>> > low resolution that can't be reset to higher normal user resolution
>> > or Lubuntu will not boot past the splash screen.
>> >
>> > So the fix that I see on many website for this is not working - an
>> > xorg.conf file to fix is not working. I know xorg.conf is not used
>> > anymore but I don't know any other way to fix it permanently.
>> >
>> > Any help appreciated.
>> >
>> > Lee G.
>> >
>>
>> Create an /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d , folder. Then inside this folder
>> create a file with name 20-intel.conf
>>
>> Inside this file add the following content
>>
>> Section "Device"   Identifier  "Intel Graphics"   Driver      "intel"
>> Option      "AccelMethod"  "uxa" EndSection
>>
>>
>> Save the file.
>>
>> Remove any xorg.conf file you have created earlier
>>
>> sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>>
>> Reboot your PC.
>>
>> See if this worked
>>
>> cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep -i uxa
>>
>> Regards NikTh
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> This did not work. I already tried this but did it again to get the log
> info you suggested. Lubuntu boots to black screen with only a mouse
> cursor showing. If I somehow get a window open (maybe just a right click
> to get a dialog or menu box) and drag it around the desktop with the
> mouse then the desktop refreshes and shows up in the swath or path of
> the dragged window - from doing this I get most of desktop to reveal -
> but the desktop is incomplete. Any Lubuntu/Xfce window or menu I open
> has deformed unreadable fonts with missing characters (ie. it's totally
> messed-up looking). But if I open Firefox or the terminal it looks and
> acts OK though. Here's log output:
>
> user at user1-pchut:~$ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep -i uxa
> [   20.728] (**) intel(0): Option "AccelMethod" "uxa"
> [    21.081] (II) UXA(0): Driver registered support for the following
> operations:
>  user at user1-pchut:~$
>
> Thanks, any ideas appreciated.
>
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