Re: system lock up, not sure if related to "your system is too slow"

[songbird <songbird@anthive.com>]

Greg Wooledge wrote:
...
> You shouldn't even need to create that xorg.conf.d snippet.  It should
> just work automatically.

   removing the xserver-xorg-video-intel package left me with a
command line only system.  so i had to reinstall that.


> You *will* however most likely need to install some non-free firmware
> packages, e.g. firmware-misc-nonfree .
>
> unicorn:~$ sudo dmesg | grep -i firmware
> [...]
> [   10.387158] i915 0000:00:02.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware i915/kbl_dmc_ver1_04.bin
> [   10.387505] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] Finished loading DMC firmware i915/kbl_dmc_ver1_04.bin (v1.4)
>
> unicorn:~$ dpkg -L firmware-misc-nonfree | grep i915/kbl_dmc_ver1_04.bin
> /lib/firmware/i915/kbl_dmc_ver1_04.bin
>
> (That's from my system, which is not necessarily the same model of Intel
> onboard graphics as the OP's, but all of the modern Intel graphics chipsets
> need non-free firmware for acceleration to work.)

  i didn't have firmware-misc-nonfree installed so now that is
so perhaps that will help.  thanks.


  songbird