nasty display bugs

2014-11-06 Thread flaneurb
Mine is a Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop, Intel Core2Duo from 2009. I've upgraded the package in question without any display problems: apt-cache policy xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-video-intel: Installed: 2:2.99.914-1~exp1ubuntu4 Candidate: 2:2.99.914-1~exp1ubuntu4 Version table: *** 2:2.99.

Re: nasty display bugs

2014-11-06 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Nov 6, 2014 5:01 PM, "David Harrison" wrote: > My old Panasonic Toughbook uses 'old Intel' graphics and survived the transition to 14.10 without obvious hitches. > I can't remember offhand whether the driver was 'stock' or installed via the Intel utility. What's the best way to check via cli?

Re: nasty display bugs

2014-11-06 Thread David Harrison
gt; > like LibreOffice / Firefox works fine > > > > And as an addition to that: it will not be a requirement, but if you have > > working hardware acceleration from your graphic chip, this could help a > > lot! Qt5 can be painted by hardware acceleration, which means: your GPU &

Re: nasty display bugs

2014-11-06 Thread Aere Greenway
On 11/06/2014 11:28 AM, Walter Lapchynski wrote: Ian's bug is apparently i810? On 14.10, no kernel module being used. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1385920 Aere's bug is i915 I think. On 14.04, with i915 kernel module, I think. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1389904 My guess is these are dif

Re: Lubuntu ISO prototype, build with LXQt, available for testing

2014-11-06 Thread Aere Greenway
Ian: I marked this bug as affecting me too, and posted additional information that might be helpful in solving it. It is particularly troubling that 14.10 aborts loading the system on getting a render from the internal Intel graphics card - even though it is disabled in the BIOS setup. It

nasty display bugs

2014-11-06 Thread Walter Lapchynski
Ian's bug is apparently i810? On 14.10, no kernel module being used. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1385920 Aere's bug is i915 I think. On 14.04, with i915 kernel module, I think. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1389904 My guess is these are different. They do have the same results apparently. W

Re: Lubuntu ISO prototype, build with LXQt, available for testing

2014-11-06 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Hi, About Aere's problems... I have some old Dell Optiplex desktop PCs with Intel i810 chipsets in them. I don't want to throw them away. I am working on chasing down the problem and finding a fix to it. I'm good with C, rusty with x86 assembler and don't know much about Linux Device driver progr

Re: Lubuntu ISO prototype, build with LXQt, available for testing

2014-11-06 Thread Aere Greenway
On 11/06/2014 09:17 AM, Fritz Hudnut wrote: Thanks for the info. Well, that would put my G4 iBook on the "should work" low end of processor speed, in this case 933MHz . . . RAM of something in the 600MB. My iMac 800 has once again KP'd out of service . . . that has 1 GB RAM, but no way to tes

Re: Lubuntu ISO prototype, build with LXQt, available for testing

2014-11-06 Thread Fritz Hudnut
On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 12:02 AM, Jörn Schönyan wrote: > About the minimum and/or recommended system requirements: we haven't > tested it, yet. But I think it's reasonable to assume simmilar requirements > like LXDE. As a rule of thumb: > > * 256 MB RAM, 1 GHz: barely usable at all, but should "wo

Re: Subject: Fwd: [Bug 1389904] Re: With the recent update to xserver-xorg-video-intel, system boots to a black screen

2014-11-06 Thread Aere Greenway
On 11/06/2014 07:56 AM, fari...@arcor.de wrote: Just a side note. Looking at how Aere posted the relevant sysinfos came up to my mind it might be a good idea to add the cli utility inxi to Lubuntu. It's really easy and effective to gather the systeminfos, better - and more complete - than all

Re: Subject: Fwd: [Bug 1389904] Re: With the recent update to xserver-xorg-video-intel, system boots to a black screen

2014-11-06 Thread farinet
On Thu, 06 Nov 2014 05:28:46 + lubuntu-users-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com wrote: > Subject: Fwd: [Bug 1389904] Re: With the recent update to > xserver-xorg-video-intel, system boots to a black screen Just a side note. Looking at how Aere posted the relevant sysinfos came up to my mind it m

Re: Subject: Fwd: .... system boots to a black screen

2014-11-06 Thread farinet
On Thu, 06 Nov 2014 05:28:46 + lubuntu-users-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com wrote: > Subject: Fwd: [Bug 1389904] Re: With the recent update to > xserver-xorg-video-intel, system boots to a black screen Just a side note. Looking at how Aere posted the relevant sysinfos came up to my mind it m

Re: Lubuntu ISO prototype, build with LXQt, available for testing

2014-11-06 Thread Jörn Schönyan
Am Mittwoch, 5. November 2014 18:05:44 CEST schrieb Fritz Hudnut: Question, I went to the LXQT site yesterday to see what the buzz is about . . . assuming that it is not available for PPC . . . what will the minimum system requirements be??? Hi Fritz, that is a valid question, but one question