Greg Wooledge wrote: ... > You shouldn't even need to create that xorg.conf.d snippet. It should > just work automatically.
removing the xserver-xorg-video-intel package left me with a command line only system. so i had to reinstall that. > You *will* however most likely need to install some non-free firmware > packages, e.g. firmware-misc-nonfree . > > unicorn:~$ sudo dmesg | grep -i firmware > [...] > [ 10.387158] i915 0000:00:02.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware > i915/kbl_dmc_ver1_04.bin > [ 10.387505] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] Finished loading DMC firmware > i915/kbl_dmc_ver1_04.bin (v1.4) > > unicorn:~$ dpkg -L firmware-misc-nonfree | grep i915/kbl_dmc_ver1_04.bin > /lib/firmware/i915/kbl_dmc_ver1_04.bin > > (That's from my system, which is not necessarily the same model of Intel > onboard graphics as the OP's, but all of the modern Intel graphics chipsets > need non-free firmware for acceleration to work.) i didn't have firmware-misc-nonfree installed so now that is so perhaps that will help. thanks. songbird