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Offline ruebe99

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Problem with XORG1:7.7+23
« on: 2021/08/28, 16:17:44 »
Hi,
I'm facing a minor prob with current XORG. The system in use has onboard graphics (Intel).

My problem in KDE:

A console is nearly unusable because of flickering characters and backspace/del hard to position. Even apps like Libreoffice Calc are not displaying in a proper manor.
Waiting a few seconds without hitting a key will bring back characters readable.
A command like top shows a nicely flickering screen.

After downgrading XORG the system seems to be usable.

For XORG after downgrade from 1:7.7+23 to 1:7.7+7
apt policy xorg
xorg:
  Installiert:           1:7.7+7
  Installationskandidat: 1:7.7+23
  Versionstabelle:
     1:7.7+23 500
        500 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian sid/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
 *** 1:7.7+7 500
        500 http://ftp.de.debian.
       
For my entire computer
Host/Kernel/OS  "cucumber20" running Linux 5.13.0-13.slh.1-aptosid-amd64 x86_64 UEFI64 [ Debian GNU/Linux bookworm/sid ]
CPU Info        6x Intel Core i5-9600K @ 9216 KB cache flags( sse3 ht nx lm vmx ) clocked at [ 1856.679 MHz ]
Videocard       Intel CoffeeLake-S GT2 [UHD Graphics 630]  tty resolution ( 118x24 )
Network cards   Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller, at port: 4000
Processes 343 | Uptime 16min | Memory 6400.4/31959.1MB | HDD Samsung SSD 860,WDC WD30EZRZ-22Z,SanDisk SDSSDX12,ST2000DM001-1ER1,Transcend,USB 3.0 device,External USB 3.0,Transcend,USB 3.0 device,Transcend,Basics Desktop,106X,3200BEV External Size 20960GB (42%used) | Runlevel 5 | Client Shell | Infobash v3.51

cheers,
ruebe99

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Re: Problem with XORG1:7.7+23
« Reply #1 on: 2021/08/28, 18:34:50 »
Using google I see you are not the only one who has had problems with the UHD 630 graphics.

This thread might be useful:
 
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=261389

Also, this one:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1125352-start-0.html

In particular, you might give "GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="i915.alpha_support=1 quiet splash" in your /etc/default/grub file a try.

Make sure you have installed the packages firmware-linux, firmware-linux-free, and firmware-linux-nonfree.

The bible on Intel graphics:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/intel_graphics

« Last Edit: 2021/08/28, 19:47:48 by dibl »
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Offline ruebe99

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Re: Problem with XORG1:7.7+23
« Reply #2 on: 2021/08/28, 20:18:07 »
Hi & thx for your fast reply.
Sorry but at the end I downgraded XORG again.
fyi:
-All mentioned firmware-packages have been in place.
-The update of the grub command line seemed to work (I did not forget to update-grub after a first try from the grub menu at system start end editing the grub file later). But at the end scrolling in dolphin was a mess. So I give up for today.

I will have a closer look on it over the next week.
Thanks a lot and have a nice weekend.
ruebe99

Offline ruebe99

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Re: Problem with XORG1:7.7+23
« Reply #3 on: 2021/09/29, 13:28:21 »
With Wayland instead of X11 my problems are solved.
cheers