Fwd: Re: How to Change From SNA to UXA Acceleration Methods

[Nio Wiklund]

On 2013-11-07 19:44, Lee Gold wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013, at 09:40 AM, Federico Leoni wrote:
>> Lee,
>>
>> would you gently post your at least your video configuration?
>>
>> lspci  -mm | grep VGA
>> sudo lshw -c video
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> F.
> 
> user at user1-pchut:~$ lspci  -mm | grep VGA
> 00:02.0 "VGA compatible controller" "Intel Corporation"
> "82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device" -r01
> "Dell" "Device 0160"
> user at user1-pchut:~$ sudo lshw -c video
> [sudo] password for user: 
>   *-display               
>        description: VGA compatible controller
>        product: 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics
>        Device
>        vendor: Intel Corporation
>        physical id: 2
>        bus info: pci at 0000:00:02.0
>        version: 01
>        width: 32 bits
>        clock: 33MHz
>        capabilities: pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
>        configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
>        resources: irq:16 memory:e8000000-efffffff
>        memory:feb80000-febfffff
> user at user1-pchut:~$ 
> 
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>

My son has a very similar graphics device (rev 02 while you have rev 01)
in an old IBM Thinkcentre desktop computer:

Intel Corporation 82865G
Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])

and this same UXA tweak works well in that computer. If you still have
problems, it might depend on the Dell motherboard or the BIOS (or the
small difference between the revisions).

Maybe you can try some boot option (to add in grub) according to

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootOptions

Best regards
Nio