ubuntu-users Digest, Vol 71, Issue 245

[Alain Muls]

On 27 July 2010 05:14,  <ubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:13:53 -0700
> From: NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: Re: Lenovo SL500 and Intel Graphics Card
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Message-ID: <i2lbsm$eec$1 at dough.gmane.org>
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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
>


Hi All,

I resolved my display problem with the Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series.
The version I had installed was the 64bit version. Switching to the
32bit version solved the problem. I have acceleration and eg. emacs
now starts up in under 5 sec while on the 64 bit version it was over a
minute before I could get to edit a file.

Tx/Alain