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Ubuntu 11.10 "Unknown Driver" for Intel GMA 4500

Asked by Dustin Williams

Using an HP G60-553NR, I've been trying to get the driver to become recognized in hopes that I will get better performance. As it is I can't even use my webcam because it either lags profusely, or it glitches out altogether. I've tried to follow [José Antonio Rey]'s advice but when I enter the command "sudo X -configure :1", I get the this issue "Number of created screens does not match number of detected devices. Configuration failed." Not sure where to go from there. Thanks.

dustin@dustin-lin1:~$ sudo lshw -C video; lsb_release -a
[sudo] password for dustin:
  *-display:0
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
       version: 09
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
       resources: irq:44 memory:d0000000-d03fffff memory:c0000000-cfffffff ioport:5110(size=8)
  *-display:1 UNCLAIMED
       description: Display controller
       product: Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2.1
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.1
       version: 09
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: memory:d2500000-d25fffff
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10
Codename: oneiric

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

You may need an xorg.conf file if the disaply is misbehaving. Some systems still need the file

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Dustin Williams (noaddress) said : 		#2

My issue is with creating the xorg.conf file. I get an error whenever I try to. Is there some other way to make it?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Have you tried the precise liveCD. It has later drivers and a later kernel. It may help

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Dustin Williams (noaddress) said : 		#4

No I haven't, a quick search left my some what confused as to what it exactly is. Any pointers in that direction?

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Dustin Williams (noaddress) said : 		#5

OK disregard my last post. After installing Gnome Shell, Sys Info is properly displaying my graphics component. I don't know whether it was just installing Gnome Shell or my immense fiddling with various files that did it, but I am up and running smoothly. I'll post my final result here. Thank you.

dustin@dustin-lin1:~$ sudo lshw -C display; lsb_release -a; uname -a; xrandr
[sudo] password for dustin:
  *-display:0
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
       version: 09
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
       resources: irq:43 memory:d0000000-d03fffff memory:c0000000-cfffffff ioport:5110(size=8)
  *-display:1 UNCLAIMED
       description: Display controller
       product: Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2.1
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.1
       version: 09
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: memory:d2500000-d25fffff
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10
Codename: oneiric
Linux dustin-lin1 3.0.0-16-generic-pae #28-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 27 19:24:01 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1366 x 768, maximum 8192 x 8192
LVDS1 connected 1366x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 353mm x 198mm
   1366x768 60.0*+
   1360x768 59.8 60.0
   1024x768 60.0
   800x600 60.3 56.2
   640x480 59.9
VGA1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
TV1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

dustin@dustin-lin1:~$ glxinfo | grep rendering
direct rendering: Yes