Graphics problem on Dell Inspiron1100 in Ubuntu 11.04

Asked by aikInsaan

This morning I upgraded from 10.10 to 11.04 on my Dell Inspiron 1100 and my display is completely borked now! It was working fine under 10.10.

The hardware specs are:
Processor: Celeron 2.4GHz
Video: Intel 845GL

My display is essentially split by a white bar about an inch thick across the screen, with the upper portion being reflected in the lower portion. The display only occupies a little over 50% of the screen width. And there is a lot of flickering! Worth a thousand words: http://yfrog.com/khn3paj. Under Preferences>Monitors the monitor is listed Unknown and the options are all disabled.

I have a feeling the display driver for this chipset got messed up on this release...any thoughts?

Thanks!

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
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I recommend you get a wired connection and press CTRL+ALT+F1

You can then run:

sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade

This will get you full upgraded and may help

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#2

You may also add the boot option:

nomodeset

This can help. The Intel 8xxx series is a massive pain, they are very touchy with timings and can cause issues.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#3

Section "ServerLayout"
 Identifier "X.org Configured"
 Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
 Identifier "Monitor0"
 VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
 ModelName "Monitor Model"
        HorizSync 28.0 - 80.0
        VertRefresh 48.0 - 75.0
EndSection

Section "Device"
 Identifier "Card0"
 Driver "intel"
 VendorName "Intel"
 BoardName "Intel 845GL"
# BusID "PCI:2:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
 Identifier "Screen0"
 Device "Card0"
 Monitor "Monitor0"
 SubSection "Display"
  Viewport 0 0
  Depth 1
 EndSubSection
 SubSection "Display"
  Viewport 0 0
  Depth 4
 EndSubSection
 SubSection "Display"
  Viewport 0 0
  Depth 8
 EndSubSection
 SubSection "Display"
  Viewport 0 0
  Depth 15
 EndSubSection
 SubSection "Display"
  Viewport 0 0
  Depth 16
 EndSubSection
 SubSection "Display"
  Viewport 0 0
  Depth 24
 EndSubSection
EndSection

You may also need that as your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file to make it work.

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aikInsaan (aateeque) said :
#4

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.

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aikInsaan (aateeque) said :
#5

Well after a few reboots the problem is back! So that update didn't really fully resolve that which is problematic.
All I know is that my Intel 845's hardware acceleration options are not enabled. And I have read a lot of chatter on similar problems with this chipset on Linux but with no plausible solution as yet.

@actionparsnip I don't have a xorg.conf file in my X11 directory! So can I just create an xorg.conf file with these settings and expect it to come into play? (OAN why do I not have an xorg.conf file?)

Thanks!

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#6

Yeah if you make one it will be used

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aikInsaan (aateeque) said :
#7

Still no luck...I am now going to try my luck with ppa:glasen/intel-driver. Will report how it goes

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said :
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