G'day! I'm having trouble with what I believe is the i915 driver in Betsy Every so often, black bars form across the background, and icons disappear in Firefox.
I'm using the i915 driver. I need to know how to get and install a different version of the driver in the hopes that it will solve my issue. And if you think I'm barking up the wrong tree, please tell me. I've never had graphics problems before, so I'm kind of lost.
Thanks!
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"Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy."
- Albert Einstein
Thanks--any idea how? To this date I've only installed kernels from Debian .deb files--never compiled them, so I'm unsure how to do it, and I can't find the 3.18 i386 kernel on the Debian website. Of course, Jessie and LMDE use the 3.16 kernel.
Strangely, I upgraded my old LMDE to 3.16 kernel and never had this trouble. So maybe it's more than just a kernel issue.
"Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy."
- Albert Einstein
I have vesa and fbdev drivers unloaded (as per "inxi -Gx"). If I could figure out how to load one or both of them, and they work, I'd be willing to kiss the Intel driver good-bye.
I've tried uninstalling xserver-xorg-video-intel, and hoped that would force the others to load, but they seem strangely resistant to cooperating. (Much like Betsy at the moment.)
I'm actually a bit mystified as to all this--Debian Jessie ( and Sid) never gave me this trouble with the desktop. Why Mint?
"Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy."
- Albert Einstein
Fred Barclay wrote:I have vesa and fbdev drivers unloaded (as per "inxi -Gx"). If I could figure out how to load one or both of them, and they work, I'd be willing to kiss the Intel driver good-bye.
I've tried uninstalling xserver-xorg-video-intel, and hoped that would force the others to load, but they seem strangely resistant to cooperating. (Much like Betsy at the moment.)
I'm actually a bit mystified as to all this--Debian Jessie ( and Sid) never gave me this trouble with the desktop. Why Mint?
im no expert on this but mint lmde doesnt get as much attention as the likes of mint cinnamon,mate,kde (rebecca) etc i think, im currently trying to find out how to update the kernel to latest 4.0 rc if i can get it sorted i will post the procedure for you that might help !
are you running 32bit or 64bit? you could maybe try the mate flavour as cinnamon can be tedious lol
My processor is pae-capable, so on my first Betsy installation I installed the 686-kernel as per the instructions in the release notes, but I have just wiped and reinstalled it (I'd made so many changes out of desperation that tracking down the bug would be seriously hampered) and left the default kernel.
Still the same problems.
"Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy."
- Albert Einstein
My processor is pae-capable, so on my first Betsy installation I installed the 686-kernel as per the instructions in the release notes, but I have just wiped and reinstalled it (I'd made so many changes out of desperation that tracking down the bug would be seriously hampered) and left the default kernel.
Still the same problems.
if you dont mind me asking what processor are you using? have you tryed 64 bit os?
Mesa is a level 4 update, so you will need to activate the level 4 in Mint Update to see if there is an update available. (Might as well check the level 5 while you are at it.)
Sorry--I DID select and apply level 4 and level 5 updates.
More and more this is looking like a Mint problem instead of a base (Debian) problem. I just changed the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/trusted or whatever (I don't recal the exact name at the moment, but it was the sources.list file inside the sources.list.d directory) from Jessie to Sid (I left the Betsy repositories alone) I then ran