[SOLVED] Intel i915 driver not being used

[rock heros]

Hello. I recently got a "new" pc and cannot seem to get the intel graphics driver to work. I am using an ssd from a pc that had issues with the i915 driver and I think I had previously tried to blacklist the driver? I know that it is installed it just isn't in use. I booted into the same version of linux using the bootable drive and everything worked without issues so I know that it is something that I had done previously on this ssd. I am still new to linux but hopefully I can figure this out without having to do a fresh install.

inxi -Fxxxz output

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System:
  Kernel: 5.15.0-46-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A 
  Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 tk: Gtk 3.24.20 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm4 
  dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Linux Mint 20.3 Una base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: LENOVO product: 10130 v: Lenovo H530 
  serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: LENOVO model: SHARKBAY v: 31900058 STD serial: <filter> BIOS: LENOVO 
  v: IEKT20AUS date: 12/04/2013 
CPU:
  Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i3-4130 bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  arch: Haswell rev: 3 L2 cache: 3072 KiB 
  flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx 
  bogomips: 27137 
  Speed: 3158 MHz min/max: 800/3400 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 3158 2: 3346 
  3: 2859 4: 3224 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel 4th Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics 
  vendor: Lenovo driver: N/A bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:041e 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.13 driver: fbdev 
  unloaded: modesetting,vesa compositor: compton v: 0.1~beta2+20150922 
  resolution: 1920x1080~77Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 14.0.5 256 bits) 
  v: 4.5 Mesa 22.2.0-devel (git-e8fc5cc 2022-06-22 focal-oibaf-ppa) 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio 
  vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:03.0 
  chip ID: 8086:0c0c 
  Device-2: Intel 8 Series/C220 Series High Definition Audio vendor: Lenovo 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 chip ID: 8086:8c20 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.15.0-46-generic 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: Lenovo driver: r8169 v: kernel port: e000 bus ID: 02:00.0 
  chip ID: 10ec:8168 
  IF: enp2s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8188EE Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Lenovo 
  driver: rtl8188ee v: kernel port: d000 bus ID: 03:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:8179 
  IF: wlp3s0 state: down mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 355.42 GiB (74.5%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Silicon Power model: SPCC Solid State Disk 
  size: 476.94 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 230 scheme: MBR 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 467.89 GiB used: 355.42 GiB (76.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 41.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 201 Uptime: 14m Memory: 5.71 GiB used: 780.0 MiB (13.3%) 
  Init: systemd v: 245 runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 9.4.0 alt: 9 Shell: bash 
  v: 5.0.17 running in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.0.38 

Any advice would be appreciated.
Thank you!

[sleeper12]

Did you try:

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sudo modprobe i915

[SMG]

Hello. I recently got a "new" pc and cannot seem to get the intel graphics driver to work. I am using an ssd from a pc that had issues with the i915 driver and I think I had previously tried to blacklist the driver?

I am not familiar with blacklisting the Intel driver. I do see you mentioned doing that in this post from March.

What is the output of

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cat /etc/default/grub

[rock heros]

Did you try:

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sudo modprobe i915

No change. I rebooted after. did I need to do anything else?

What is the output of

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cat /etc/default/grub

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# If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update
# /boot/grub/grub.cfg.
# For full documentation of the options in this file, see:
#   info -f grub -n 'Simple configuration'

GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=hidden
GRUB_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

# Uncomment to enable BadRAM filtering, modify to suit your needs
# This works with Linux (no patch required) and with any kernel that obtains
# the memory map information from GRUB (GNU Mach, kernel of FreeBSD ...)
#GRUB_BADRAM="0x01234567,0xfefefefe,0x89abcdef,0xefefefef"

# Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only)
#GRUB_TERMINAL=console

# The resolution used on graphical terminal
# note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE
# you can see them in real GRUB with the command `vbeinfo'
#GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480

# Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to Linux
#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true

# Uncomment to disable generation of recovery mode menu entries
#GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"

# Uncomment to get a beep at grub start
#GRUB_INIT_TUNE="480 440 1"

[sleeper12]

Did you try:

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sudo modprobe i915

No change. I rebooted after. did I need to do anything else?

No, that didn't work then.

[sleeper12]

Is that driver blacklisted? If it is, I would think you can just remove it from the blacklist.

[rock heros]

Going into

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sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf 

doesn't seems to show it blacklisted.

[sleeper12]

Ok, wait to see what SMG has in mind then.

[Hoser Rob]

That's an Intel Haswell architecture machine. I'm seeing lots of problems with those on this forum lately, with both Mint 20 and 21.

I'm running Debian 11 (Bullseye) Stable based Mint 21 KDE on the same architecture. It uses a non Ubuntu 5.10.x kernel, which I would not install in a Ubuntu based system like Mint. The video works flawlessly and did so OOTB. It's supported for another 5 years or so.

My recommendation for users with these problems with Haswell video would be to try LMDE if they don't want to use another distro (Mint does have very good newbie support). It's also Debian 11 Stable based. Just don't add Ubuntu ppas to it

[SMG]

That's an Intel Haswell architecture machine. I'm seeing lots of problems with those on this forum lately, with both Mint 20 and 21.

They said the live session of Linux Mint works and they know they made changes to the hard drive for their prior installation. (They are re-using a drive from a different installation.) That would seem to indicate the issue is a result of something they changed. The trick will be to figure out what they changed.

[JeremyB]

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grep i915 /etc/modprobe.d/*

Any results?

[SMG]

Hello. I recently got a "new" pc and cannot seem to get the intel graphics driver to work. I am using an ssd from a pc that had issues with the i915 driver and I think I had previously tried to blacklist the driver? I know that it is installed it just isn't in use. I booted into the same version of linux using the bootable drive and everything worked without issues so I know that it is something that I had done previously on this ssd. I am still new to linux but hopefully I can figure this out without having to do a fresh install.

After reviewing your other topic, I think a fresh install might be something worth considering.

Your initial post in that topic not only did not show an Intel driver loaded, but it also showed you had installed the oibaf PPA. That PPA is still showing in your output (below).

Graphics:
Device-1: Intel 4th Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics
vendor: Lenovo driver: N/A bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:041e
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.13 driver: fbdev
unloaded: modesetting,vesa compositor: compton v: 0.1~beta2+20150922
resolution: 1920x1080~77Hz
OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 14.0.5 256 bits)
v: 4.5 Mesa 22.2.0-devel (git-e8fc5cc 2022-06-22 focal-oibaf-ppa)
direct render: Yes

That PPA makes changes to your system approximately every 12 hours. Unless you took a Timeshift snapshot of your system before installing it, there is no way to undo the changes it made. Reinstalling is the only way to clear it from your system.

So it is possible that whatever you did to "blacklist" the i915 may be an issue, but the installation of that PPA may complicate the situation even if the i915 driver can load.

[rock heros]

That was it!

That PPA makes changes to your system approximately every 12 hours. Unless you took a Timeshift snapshot of your system before installing it, there is no way to undo the changes it made. Reinstalling is the only way to clear it from your system.

So it is possible that whatever you did to "blacklist" the i915 may be an issue, but the installation of that PPA may complicate the situation even if the i915 driver can load.

I took a few timeshift snapshots! After it was finished I still had no driver. I then noticed that

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 nomodeset 

was still in the grub boot configuration. I removed that and now I have the i915 driver active!

I have a nvidia card that I plan on putting in this pc, but I figured trying to fix this issue would be a good learning opportunity!

Thank you so much everyone for all of your help!

[SMG]

I removed that and now I have the i915 driver active!

Now is a good time to take a snapshot you can label as "i915 driver active".

Please go to your first post in this topic, click the pencil icon, and add [SOLVED] to the beginning of the title so others know you are no longer seeking help on this issue.