Re: The nightmare of Intel Integrated GPUs under Linux in general and Debian in particular

2020-02-14 Thread James Daldry
I have a Lenovo Z570 Ideapad with GMA3000 graphics (Sandy Bridge). I had gone through all the tricks - /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d, etc/default/grub, grub command line, firmware-nonfree, Ubuntu graphics PPA. Had it mostly OK, usable. Since I was using testing, did apt update apt upgrade. Lost all 7

Re: Several issues with Xorg in debian/testing

2020-02-05 Thread James Daldry
Hi, Hans I've had similar problems for the past couple years with 2 laptops with Intel graphics. The problem is that someone on the kernel team was jealous of the pretty Windows startup screens so they HAD to bring them to Linux. So they put graphic mode setting in the kernel. So now the graphic