Hello everyone, thanks for your responses. To recap, I installed a fresh
Stretch with Gnome, that is all I have done so far.
Felix: xorg-xserver-video-intel is installed and shows up in dpkg -l
grep intel:
ii libdrm-intel1:amd64 2.4.74-1
amd64 Userspace interface to intel-specific kernel DRM
services -- runtime
ii libdrm-intel1:i386 2.4.74-1
i386 Userspace interface to intel-specific kernel DRM
services -- runtime
ii xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20161206-1
amd64 X.Org X server -- Intel i8xx, i9xx display driver
from journalctl | grep failed:
May 24 15:26:48 laptopanil kernel: acpi PNP0A08:00: _OSC failed
(AE_ERROR); disabling ASPM
May 24 15:26:52 laptopanil kernel: usb 1-3: firmware: failed to load
ar3k/AthrBT_0x31010000.dfu (-2)
May 24 15:26:52 laptopanil kernel: usb 1-3: Direct firmware load for
ar3k/AthrBT_0x31010000.dfu failed with error -2
May 24 15:26:52 laptopanil kernel: Bluetooth: Loading patch file failed
May 24 15:26:52 laptopanil kernel: ath3k: probe of 1-3:1.0 failed with
error -2
May 24 15:27:00 laptopanil avahi-daemon[470]: chroot.c: open() failed:
No such file or directory
May 24 15:27:07 laptopanil systemd-udevd[556]: Process '/sbin/crda'
failed with exit code 255.
May 24 15:27:29 laptopanil gnome-settings-[696]: g_task_return_error:
assertion 'error != NULL' failed
May 24 15:27:36 laptopanil /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[754]:
xf86EnableIOPorts: failed to set IOPL for I/O (Operation not permitted)
May 24 15:27:47 laptopanil gnome-settings-[942]: g_task_return_error:
assertion 'error != NULL' failed
May 24 15:27:55 laptopanil tracker-extract[972]: External plugin loader
failed. This most likely means that the plugin loader helper binary was
not found or could not be run. You might need to set the
GST_PLUGIN_SCANNER environment variable if your setup is unusual. This
should normally not be required though.
May 24 15:29:06 laptopanil firefox-esr.desktop[1131]: 1495657746446
addons.productaddons ERROR Request failed certificate
checks: [Exception... "SSL is required and URI scheme is not https."
nsresult: "0x8000ffff (NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED)" location: "JS frame ::
resource://gre/modules/CertUtils.jsm :
I know I am missing some wireless firmware, I imagine that is not
causing my issue (sluggish graphics, and crashing videos), cofirmed by
dmesg | grep -i firmware:
[ 0.432369] ACPI: [Firmware Bug]: BIOS _OSI(Linux) query ignored
[ 13.469892] usb 1-3: firmware: failed to load
ar3k/AthrBT_0x31010000.dfu (-2)
[ 13.470076] usb 1-3: Direct firmware load for
ar3k/AthrBT_0x31010000.dfu failed with error -2
[ 25.915422] r8169 0000:02:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware
rtl_nic/rtl8106e-1.fw
Someone had said I could update my BIOS (and something about linux mode,
I cannot find that), could that possibly help??
Greg: I do believe I am not using a dm since looking for lightdm or gdm
or lxdm does not show installed packages.
I have one more question, doing apt-get upgrade mentions
linux-image-amd64 is being "held back" I am currently on 4.9.0-2, could
this be related?
If Gnome is not for me, then I can live with that (someone said
(debian-laptop list) they have my exact same laptop and is running
Gnome, I dont know how he did it), I guess I can go to Mate if
necesssary, could the video playback issue also be resolved this way??
thanks a lot, sorry for the long email
On Wed, May 24, 2017, at 03:00 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 03:38:38PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> > Given that that log contns no (EE) errors, switching to a different DE might
> > be a solution.
>
> Well, we knew that from the Subject: of the email. ;-) The message in
> the subject is unique to certain desktop environments, and indicates
> that the graphics support isn't good enough for whatever crazy rendering
> or compositing thing the kids these days think a workstation should do.
>
> > That log also reports the modeset(0) driver is in use. It's possible that
> > the
> > Intel driver would work better.
>
> I suppose it's worth a shot, but the modeset driver is supposed to
> be the correct choice for most Intel graphics chipsets in stretch,
> even those that were supported by the intel driver in jessie.
>
> A more common suggestion might be to verify that all of the necessary
> firmware has been installed, especially if some of it is from non-free.
>
> dmesg | grep -i firmware
>
> See if there are any errors about missing firmware there, and if so,
> track down and install whichever packages contain those firmware blobs.
> It's pretty likely that he'll want firmware-misc-nonfree for example.
>
> > followed by login manager restart or reboot.
>
> He got his Xorg.0.log from $HOME instead of /var/log, which means he is
> running startx, not using a display manager.
>
> I'm not sure whether you need to reboot after installing new firmware.
>
