1 Feb
2025
1 Feb
'25
10:23 a.m.
Gianluca Interlandi composed on 2025-01-29 16:37 (UTC-0800):
I installed openSUSE 15.6 on an old DELL Inspiron
1520. I decided to give
...
The video card is: Mesa Intel 965GM. I wonder whether
anybody has
I suspect there may ultimately be no solution for this particular
laptop while using Leap 15.6, based upon:
<https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/issues/1593> and
<https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1212696#c3>
The 965 series is Intel's Gen4 graphics, the oldest version "supported"
by the superior, compared to the intel display driver, modesetting
display driver. I'm afraid the commenter in the suse bug is going to
turn out to be right that it's just to old to expect to get fixed.
That said, potentially, a switch to the backport kernel for leap could solve it:
<http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/stable:/Backport/standard/x86_64/>
<http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/stable:/Backport/standard/x86_64/kernel-default-6.13.0-lp156.4.1.gb338842.x86_64.rpm>
Debian 12 is not affected by this issue here, nor is Tumbleweed, at least
while using a 6.6.x longterm kernel. TW's longterm was just switched to
6.12.x, which I have yet to try on my Q965. Trixie, to be released as
Debian 13 this year, has the same issue.
Gianluca Interlandi composed on 2025-01-31 18:54 (UTC-0800)
The Xorg.0.log files are not from an aborted session.
The session is still
running. I just checked, the Xorg.0.log file is still the exact same as
the ones I posted. It is corrected that those I posted are identical, one
is from before the VMD (openGL application) crashed and the other one from
after. Do we expect a openGL crash to be caught in the Xorg.0.log file?
I have no idea. Yours could be unrelated to mine. I have no experience with
whatever a VMD is or does.
I also compared your examples with mine. They seem to
be the same length
in terms of lines. I cannot really tell what the differences are. I do see
though that in my case 'Device "DDX"' is missing.
The intel display driver is the DDX. The modesetting driver is a DIX.
DDX - device dependent X driver
DIX - device independent X driver
Dependent means only supports the device brand. Independent works with Intel,
AMD, NVidia and other devices. It's newer, different technology. Thus, bugs
in a DDX may be absent in a DIX, and vice versa.
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