Mint plus Gigabyte motherboard on board graphics issues

[rob20]

Hi all.

I'm having issues with my onboard graphics under Mint 13 Cinnamon.
When Mint starts is complains that Cinnamon has crashed and would I like to restart it.

My motherboard is a Gigabyte H87M-HD3, with Intel graphics. I have found various windows that should have a clear background in fact do not. (Cairo dock covers more of the screen than is should etc.) I have put this down to the incorrect graphics drivers. Is there a known good source for drivers for the graphics on this board ? Are the drivers the issue ?

I know I'm using Mint and not Unubtu but I beleive they are very closely linked and would assume what works for one would work for the other and Ubuntu would have a much larger user base and so more likley to have solved the problem.

Thanks for any help you can give.

Rob.

[Yellow Pasque]

If you're only having issues under Cinnamon, then use the Mint forums..

[rob20]

Unfortunatley it is with everything. Not just Cinnamon which makes me think its a driver issuse.

[oldfred]

Moved to other OS since Mint.

I have seen some UEFI/BIOS settings for older Gigabyte boards. Often some setting in UEFI that does not seem related makes a difference.

Intel drivers often need boot parameters and have many updates recently. Do not know about Mint but newest Ubuntu works better. It often is not just video driver, but kernel & all supporting software.

Possible boot options suggested by ubfan1
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2184839&p=12871710#post12871710


Haswell improvements thru 2013
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel_2013haswell_end&num=1
New Intel driver installer (only with 13.04)
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTQyNTQ
https://01.org/linuxgraphics/downloads

[rob20]

Hi Fred.

Thanks for your post. I will have a read up on those links you posted and see if I can figure out whats going on.
Currently I can't log in to Cinnamon. I have to use XFCE which is also affected but will log me in and run even if I get odd video "effects" here and there.

I will try and figure it out and get back to you here and update the thread.

Thanks

Rob