Intel GMA X3100 driver

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atexit8
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Intel GMA X3100 driver

#1 Post by atexit8 »

I have a used HP Compaq 2710p laptop.
It has a Core 2 Duo CPU and the Intel GMA X3100 video chipset.

I created a live USB of MX-17.1_386.iso

I am able to boot into MX Linux if I use the option acpi=off but the display does not fill the entire screen.
I am getting 1024 x 768 but this laptop is 1280 x 800.

What can I do to get 1280x800 ?
Last edited by atexit8 on Mon Sep 17, 2018 8:40 am, edited 1 time in total.

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Gordon Cooper
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Re: Intel GMA X3100 driver

#2 Post by Gordon Cooper »

Welcome to MX.
You should be able to correct this with the Display Settings in the Menu

Menu>Settings>Display>Resolution enter your preferred resolution then Apply -takes a few seconds then Close.

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Re: Intel GMA X3100 driver

#3 Post by atexit8 »

I don't have the choice of 1200x800

The two choices are 1024x768 @ 0.0 Hz or 800x600 at 57.0Hz.

I haven't installed yet. Just running Live USB.

It looks like it is using the vesa driver but from reading the forum I should be using modesetting.
How do I do that?

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Re: Intel GMA X3100 driver

#4 Post by atexit8 »

I was able to get the laptop working with the xfce 32-bit version of Linux Mint 19 with the boot option video=SVIDEO-1:d
per https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... ug/1685442

However with MX Linux that did not seem to work as the boot up sat a black blank screen for at least 1 to 2 minutes before the desktop showed.

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Re: Intel GMA X3100 driver

#5 Post by kmathern »

atexit8 wrote: Mon Sep 17, 2018 8:26 am ...It looks like it is using the vesa driver but from reading the forum I should be using modesetting.
How do I do that?
I don't know if I can be much help to you, but it might help others if you posted the output of

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inxi -Fxxx

And

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cat /proc/cmdline

Use code tags.

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Re: Intel GMA X3100 driver

#6 Post by atexit8 »

nothing for cat /proc/cmdline

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$ inxi -Fxz
System:    Host: mx1 Kernel: 4.15.0-1-686-pae i686 bits: 32 gcc: 6.3.0
           Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3 (Gtk 2.24.31) Distro: MX-17.1_386 Horizon March 12, 2017
Machine:   Device: laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP Compaq 2710p v: F.20 serial: N/A
           Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 30C8 v: KBC Version 74.3A serial: N/A
           BIOS: Hewlett-Packard v: 68MOU Ver. F.20 date: 12/08/2011
Battery    C23F: charge: 0.0 Wh 0.0% condition: 40.5/40.5 Wh (100%)
           model: Hewlett-Packard Primary status: N/A
CPU:       Dual core Intel Core2 Duo U7600 (-MCP-) arch: Conroe rev.13 cache: 2048 KB
           flags: (lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 4787
           clock speeds: max: 1201 MHz 1: 1112 MHz 2: 912 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Intel Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (primary)
           bus-ID: 00:02.0
           Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.2 ) drivers: modesetting (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1280x800@58.48hz
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 965GM x86/MMX/SSE2
           version: 2.1 Mesa 13.0.6 Direct Render: Yes
Audio:     Card Intel 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.15.0-1-686-pae
Network:   Card-1: Intel 82566MM Gigabit Network Connection
           driver: e1000e v: 3.2.6-k port: 4020 bus-ID: 00:19.0
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
           Card-2: Intel PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN [Kedron] Network Connection
           driver: iwl4965 v: in-tree: bus-ID: 10:00.0
           IF: wlan0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: NA (-)
           ID-1: USB /dev/sda model: STORE_N_GO size: 15.5GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 1.6G used: 17M (2%) fs: overlay dev: N/A
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 54.0C mobo: 23.0C
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 168 Uptime: 10 min Memory: 284.6/2009.0MB
           Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 6.3.0 Client: Shell (bash 4.4.121) inxi: 2.3.54 

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Re: Intel GMA X3100 driver

#7 Post by kmathern »

It should have shown something for the `cat /proc/cmdline` command, but I mainly wanted to see that because I wanted see whether you were using the nomodeset option or not, and you aren't, it would force it to use the vesa driver.

The inxi report you posted shows that it's using the modesetting driver (not the vesa driver), and it also shows the resolution is already set at 1280x800.

I'm not sure why the 1280x800 resolution isn't available in the Display Settings, does the xrandr command show it as a setting?

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Re: Intel GMA X3100 driver

#8 Post by atexit8 »

kmathern wrote: Mon Sep 17, 2018 5:38 pm It should have shown something for the `cat /proc/cmdline` command, but I mainly wanted to see that because I wanted see whether you were using the nomodeset option or not, and you aren't, it would force it to use the vesa driver.

The inxi report you posted shows that it's using the modesetting driver (not the vesa driver), and it also shows the resolution is already set at 1280x800.

I'm not sure why the 1280x800 resolution isn't available in the Display Settings, does the xrandr command show it as a setting?
I was getting 1024x768 or 800x600 when I used the boot option acpi=off.
But I wanted 1200x800.

So, next I tried not using any boot option, and let the live USB boot to conclusion which takes 3+ minutes,
I do get 1200x800.

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With Linux Mint 19 and using the video=SVIDEO-1:d boot option, the laptop boots into Linux in about 45 seconds.

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Re: Intel GMA X3100 driver

#9 Post by caprea »

Have briefly googled but did not find any clear information on the pointing stick.
Does your laptop possibly have a wacom digitizer ?
Then perhaps the bootdelay is caused by this
https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php ... r+xorgcore

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