Lenovo SL500 and Intel Graphics Card

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On 07/24/2010 08:29 AM, Alain Muls wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have a Lenovo SL500 with an Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series
> Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller. I installed Lucid Lynx but
> have trouble with the Graphics. No acceleration and eg GoogleEarth can
> not be run.
> 
> I installed Karmic Kaola on a USB startup disk and the acceleration is
> present in Karmic. How come I cannot get the same performance on
> Lucid?

Alain, I've the same chipset on an HP G60-530US notebook and have no
issues at all with graphics acceleration (compiz):

*-display:1 UNCLAIMED
 description: Display controller
 product: Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller
 vendor: Intel Corporation

From
$ sudo lspci -v
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series
Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 360b
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 29
	Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
	Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
	I/O ports at 5110 [size=8]
	Capabilities: [90] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0
Enable+
	Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 3
	Kernel driver in use: i915
	Kernel modules: i915

Can you open the terminal and provide the same section from:
$ sudo lspci -v
$ lsmod |grep intel

This is the output from that last on my system:
$ lsmod |grep Intel
lucid at lucid-laptop:~$ lsmod |grep intel
snd_hda_codec_intelhdmi    10535  1
snd_hda_intel          23832  2
snd_hda_codec          99579  3
snd_hda_codec_intelhdmi,snd_hda_codec_conexant,snd_hda_intel
snd_pcm                88269  3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd                    72583  19
snd_hda_codec_intelhdmi,snd_hda_codec_conexant,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
snd_page_alloc          8692  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
intel_agp              29095  2 i915