• Registered: 2011-09-10
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Topic: [SOLVED] Intel HD Graphics 3000 (Sandy Bridge) (incorrect resolution)

Hi!
(I'm new, don't bite)

Just put #! on my Thinkpad T520.
Its got the Intel HD Graphics 3000.

$ lspci -v | grep -i vga
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Sandy Bridge Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])

When I boot with the 2.6.32-5-amd64 kernel, I get an incorrect resolution.
(ie. I can't run at FHD 1920x1080)


When I boot with the 2.6.36-2.dmz.5-liquorix-amd64 kernel, I get the full resolution, but display is choppy. (ie. moving windows is clunky)

In addition, when I run glxinfo with the liquorix kernal, I get the following errors:

$ glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
Unrecognized deviceID 126
X Error of failed request:  BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
  Major opcode of failed request:  154 (GLX)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  3 (X_GLXCreateContext)
  Serial number of failed request:  21
  Current serial number in output stream:  24


Here's my xorg log booting with 2.6.36-2.dmz.5-liquorix-amd64:
http://sprunge.us/Ofgj

Heres  xorg log w/ 2.6.32-5-amd64:
http://sprunge.us/eVeJ

Other stuff that may be pertinent:

$ dpkg -l | grep glx
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx                   7.7.1-4                   A free implementation of the OpenGL API -- GLX runtime
$ dpkg -l | grep video-intel
ii  xserver-xorg-video-intel          2:2.13.0-6                X.Org X server -- Intel i8xx, i9xx display driver

I'm still reading to try to figure this one out, and am likely posting this before I have exhausted other resources, so I apologize in advance if I'm missing something obvious.

Thanks for any insight!

Last edited by zikzak (2011-09-14 15:04:54)

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  • Registered: 2011-08-28
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Re: [SOLVED] Intel HD Graphics 3000 (Sandy Bridge) (incorrect resolution)

You need to enable squeeze-backports to get kernel 2.6.39 and xserver-xorg-intel 2.15.0.

Technically, it's recommended by Intel that you have newer packages than that, but you'd have to move to Debian unstable to get them, and that's risky business.

Last edited by soren121 (2011-09-11 01:29:41)

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  • Registered: 2011-09-10
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Re: [SOLVED] Intel HD Graphics 3000 (Sandy Bridge) (incorrect resolution)

Yup! that worked!
Thanks!
(sorry, I meant to confirm this earlier, but I got caught up playing with my new toy... )

For anyone else trying to get the correct resolution/get Intel graphics working...

http://backports-master.debian.org/Instructions/
will tell you how to enable backports.

This will help you find the right kernel

apt-cache search 2.6.39

Seems to be working fine so far!
Thanks again.