Hi. I am new to open suse and have installed 13.1 on my ibm r50e. I really like it and want to use it permanently but have a problem. In a normal boot up if I watch bbc iplayer they the image does not open properly and remains a tiny discoloured splodge on screen. If I boot into recovery mode all is fine and iplayer works fine. How can I get I get get the graphics to work on a normal boot please. I am pretty new to linux so please keep any advice simple. Thanks.
First of all, you should install all updates, especially when using the intel driver.
Run YaST->Online Updates for that, or Apper, or gnome-packagekit, or “sudo zypper up” in a terminal window.
Maybe your problem is even fixed then already?
Second, you should really provide more information, like at least what Desktop Environment and which browser you are using.
It is the latest stable release of 13.1.KDE I am using the default browser firefox. I have installed all updates available in update manager.
I am just giving this a bump as I am stuck with this problem. I have looked through the forum for hours but am really stuck with this problem. Any suggestions welcome. Thanks.
Do you have the same problem with other websites?
Maybe you installed some Firefox-Addon that causes your problem?
Try to disable/uninstall them all.
This is using Flash.
Maybe try to disable hardware acceleration in Flash. (right-click on a flash video and select “Settings”)
Have you tried other Webbrowsers?
At least Konqueror, Opera, Chromium, Epiphany, and Rekonq are available in the standard repos, you can just install them with YaST->Software Management.
I just tried, and it works fine here with Firefox on an intel 945G.
can you post the output from a terminal
/sbin/lspci -nnk | grep VGA -A2
but I am almost afraid that your graphics chip is just too old for
anything fancy like bbc iplayer.
You could also add some additional info like RAM of the machine, is ther
a BIOS setting for the RAM assigned to the graphics chip? Maybe
increasing that also helps to a certain degree.
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PC: oS 13.1 x86_64 | i7-2600@3.40GHz | 16GB | KDE 4.11 | GTX 650 Ti
ThinkPad E320: oS 13.1 x86_64 | i3@2.30GHz | 8GB | KDE 4.11 | HD 3000
HTPC: oS 13.1 x86_64 | Celeron@1.8GHz | 2GB | Gnome 3.10 | HD 2500
Am 18.01.2014 19:10, schrieb Martin Helm:
> but I am almost afraid that your graphics chip is just too old for
> anything fancy like bbc iplayer.
Ah I see now that is just flashplayer, thought it is some fancy application.
Please follow first the advise from wolfi323, if it does not help please
post also the output I asked for (it shows which kernel module is used
for your graphics chip).
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PC: oS 13.1 x86_64 | i7-2600@3.40GHz | 16GB | KDE 4.11 | GTX 650 Ti
ThinkPad E320: oS 13.1 x86_64 | i3@2.30GHz | 8GB | KDE 4.11 | HD 3000
HTPC: oS 13.1 x86_64 | Celeron@1.8GHz | 2GB | Gnome 3.10 | HD 2500
Am 18.01.2014 19:06, schrieb wolfi323:
> I just tried, and it works fine here with Firefox on an intel 82945G.
>
Do you use uxa or sna with that card?
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PC: oS 13.1 x86_64 | i7-2600@3.40GHz | 16GB | KDE 4.11 | GTX 650 Ti
ThinkPad E320: oS 13.1 x86_64 | i3@2.30GHz | 8GB | KDE 4.11 | HD 3000
HTPC: oS 13.1 x86_64 | Celeron@1.8GHz | 2GB | Gnome 3.10 | HD 2500
The default, I didn’t change any X settings.
It’s SNA according to Xorg.0.log.
But maybe the OP should try to switch to UXA, see here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Intel_Graphics#Choose_acceleration_method
If/how good SNA works depends on the actual graphics chip I think.
But switching off hardware acceleration in Flash should help as well if that’s the issue, I guess.
Since the problem seems to disappear in recovery mode, it’s most likely a graphics driver issue…
Am 18.01.2014 22:16, schrieb wolfi323:
> If/how good SNA works depends on the actual graphics chip I think.
> But switching off hardware acceleration in Flash should help as well if
> that’s the issue, I guess.
There is an ubuntu thread where disabling hardware acceleration did not
help with flash problems but a switch to uxa with an 8xxxx intel chip,
that is the reason I ask, I also would simply try it in that situation.
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PC: oS 13.1 x86_64 | i7-2600@3.40GHz | 16GB | KDE 4.11 | GTX 650 Ti
ThinkPad E320: oS 13.1 x86_64 | i3@2.30GHz | 8GB | KDE 4.11 | HD 3000
HTPC: oS 13.1 x86_64 | Celeron@1.8GHz | 2GB | Gnome 3.10 | HD 2500
Thanks for getting back to me.
The point is that on a recovery mode boot, flash videos work fine so it can work perfectly with this graphics chip. Other distros, Fedora, Mint, Cent etc etc the graphics work fine. Its just on a normal boot in SuSe any flash content (Iplayer, youtube etc) is rubbish. The output for the code you gave above is:-
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device [8086:3582] (rev 02)
Subsystem: IBM ThinkPad R50e [1014:0562]
Kernel driver in use: i915.
I booted in recovery mode too when flash video works fine and the output from the code was exactly the same. What is different with the graphics driver in recovery mode to a standard boot?
No add ons at all to Firefox. It is straight out the box clean install of SuSe 13.1.
In recovery mode a different driver is used that just supports common features for all graphics chips. So hardware acceleration is just not used then.
OK, so it is any flash content then.
Have you tried to turn off hardware acceleration in Flash?
And as mentioned, try to switch to the older (stable) UXA acceleration:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Intel_Graphics#Choose_acceleration_method
The SNA acceleration is quite new and could (does) still contain bugs.
The other distros you quoted may use a different version of the intel driver, a different default acceleration setting, a different X server version, and so on. So there can be differences with specific graphic chips between distributions.
Well many thanks guys. success lol!. Creating a ‘20-intel.conf’ file containing text:
Section “Device”
Identifier “Intel Graphics”
Driver “intel”
Option “AccelMethod” “uxa”
EndSection
in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d did the trick. Works fine now.
Thankyou for your response