Am 2. Oktober 2021 02:12:16 MESZ schrieb Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org>:
Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
You probably just need firmware. Use "dmesg | grep -i firmware" to
verify this.
On Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 11:32:57PM +0000, Nils wrote:
Well, this command gets me no output at all!
Maybe these Intel Xtreme graphics cards are simply too weak for Linux and Windows can handle them better?
On Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 11:40:16PM +0000, Tuxifan wrote:
Additional info, here is my "lspci -nn":
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface [8086:2560] (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device [8086:2562] (rev 03)
This is an old chipset, which explains why it doesn't need any firmware.
I found a 10 year old forum thread where someone with this chipset had
problems, with no resolution:
<https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=71083>
Of course, that's 10 years ago. Here's a 9 year old thread from someone
who got things to be "less bad" by installing some missing packages:
<https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/3d-acceleration-with-intel-corporation-82845g-gl%5Bbrookdale-g%5D-4175410707/>
You could check glxinfo (from mesa-utils) and see whether direct
rendering is working at all. It might also be worth looking at your
Xorg.0.log file and see if it has any useful errors or warnings.
I'm not an expert on decades-old Intel video hardware, but everything I've
heard about it over the years says that it was notoriously bad. Maybe
you can find some way to make it less bad, but it's definitely never going
to be *great*.
If you don't get the answers you're looking for here, you might need to
seek out people who know more about running Linux/X11 on museum-age
Intel devices.