That is odd. Can you see the contents of /sys/module/i915/initstate ? If so, what does that file say?
Graphics Installer 1.0.7 for Linux does'nt recognize Bay Trail graphics on Ubuntu 14.04
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Feb 11, 2015 - 07:01am
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fledermaus (not verified) Feb 16, 2015 - 11:52am
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tde (not verified) Feb 17, 2015 - 08:58am
I've found following: There is no directory i915 in /sys/module, but a directory i915_bdw. The content of the file: $ cat /sys/module/i915_bdw/initstate live
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fledermaus (not verified) Feb 17, 2015 - 09:45am
Ah, that will be why. The module you have loaded has had some surgery done on it so the installer
doesn't reckon you are running an i915-driven system. Hm, this is awkward... I can't think of an easy
way to create a fake /sys entry... If you like, I can walk you through the steps necessary to do what
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tde (not verified) Feb 17, 2015 - 11:07am
Thank you for your fast response!
I 've found the i915_bdw driver is an out-of the box solution of ubuntu 14.04. (see http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTY0ODY).
I can't see a way to create a fake /sys entry. I guess the best way would be the manual installation of the i915 driver.
Therefore I need a recipe. Is ther anywhere a site describes the steps for a manual installation?
Otherwise I'd come back to your offer to walk me through the installation steps.
Thanks!
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fledermaus (not verified) Feb 17, 2015 - 01:59pm
It's pretty straightforward: It's all driven by the configuration here:
https://download.01.org/gfx/ilg-config.cfg
If you download that, you'll see a section for trusty:
[Ubuntu trusty]
source https://download.01.org/gfx/ubuntu/14.04/main
source trusty
source mainYou put those 3 entries together to make an entry for /etc/apt/sources.list.d/intellinuxgraphics.list
deb https://download.01.org/gfx/ubuntu/14.04/main trusty main
Once that's in place, sudo apt-get update.
Following that you'll see a list of packages: The ones marked with a 'u' or 'i'
are the ones you want to install (plus one special package for the kernel module),
so eg:kernel 3.13 3.16 i i915-3.16-3.13-dkms
u libgl1-mesa-glx
u libglapi-mesa
i libgles1-mesawould mean:
sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-glx libglapi-mesa libgles1-mesa i915-3.16-3.13-dkms
There are a lot more packages in that section, so your actual command line will be longer,
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tde (not verified) Feb 23, 2015 - 11:50am
I hesitated al little bit to update the system manually. But I've done an it works.
- at first a made a backup of my root partition
- then first I added
deb https://download.01.org/gfx/ubuntu/14.04/main trusty main
to the repository to /etc/apt/sources.lst
- updated the sofware lists
sudo apt-get update
Next I handycrafted the update commnad with a text editor bases on https://download.01.org/gfx/ilg-config.cfg
The result was following:
sudo apt-get install libegl1-mesa libegl1-mesa-drivers libgbm1 libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-glx libglapi-mesa libgles1-mesa libgles2-mesa libopenvg1-mesa libosmesa6 libwayland-egl1-mesa libxatracker2 xserver-xorg-video-intel libdrm-intel1 libdrm-nouveau2 libdrm-radeon1 libdrm2 libva-drm1 libva-egl1 libva-glx1 libva-tpi1 libva-wayland1 libva-x11-1 libva1 va-driver-all vainfo i965-va-driver would-break-abi intel-gpu-tools
I was surpriced - the update worked.
After booting the computer I found, the X-performnce it's better than with the out of the box driver.
The driver works, I found just one "feature": Sometimes the shutdown screen degrades into a "ghost image", but the system does'nt hang, it shuts down a second later. I hope this issue will be solved with the next driver version.
Thank's for your support.
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tde (not verified) Mar 03, 2015 - 10:19am
This problem doesn't exist by installing Ubuntu 14.04.02. Yesterday I tried this version. The module "i915" is present and the graphics installer works properly. Perhaps also 14.04.01 came with tho original named kernel modul. I made the mistake by installing the basic version of TrustyTahr without a subversion (14.04).
Possibly it isn't worth to adapt the graphics installer to work with a kernel module i915_bdw.
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fledermaus (not verified) Mar 09, 2015 - 04:51pm
Hi - thanks for the updated info - will definitely bear it in mind when updating the installer in upcoming releases.
One point worth noting: 14.04.2 comes with the kernel from utopic (14.10) and Xorg packages from utopic as well (-lts-utopic appended to the name) - so for 14.04.2 and later, if you grab the LTS kernel and X packages, you'll actually be getting more recent graphics support than the installer provides for 14.04.1
Hello,
I installed Ubuntu 14.04 on my new ACER Travelmate. Afterwards I installed the Graphics installer 1.0.7.
This is a notebook with the the Intel N3540 processor, based on the bay trail platform.
Starting the Graphics Installer results the message box with the content: "You don’t seem to have an Intel i915 chipset so no updates are needed". The main window contains the message: "Checking if Intel graphics card available... Failed"
Listing the PCI-Devices shows following results:
$ lspci -k |grep -C 3 "VGA"
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation ValleyView SSA-CUnit (rev 0e)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0860
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation ValleyView Gen7 (rev 0e)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0860
Kernel driver in use: i915
00:13.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ValleyView 6-Port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 0e)
What is going wrong, what can I do to install the latest graphics driver?
regards
Tde