[Lubuntu] First time Linux user; having troubling booting on an old machine

**guiverc** · August 4th, 2020

This is just FYI information, mainly directed at @Bashing-om

Remembering this question, I used my remaining d745 for a QA-test of Lubuntu 20.04.1
(dell [optiplex] 745 (c2d-6600, 6gb, amd/ati radeon rv516/x1300/x1550))

A `sudo lshw -C video` lists the video card twice on my box; display:0 looks as we'd expect, the display:1 is almost identical (physical id 0.1 instead of just 0 for first & minor differences) and only second is unclaimed.

I think it's a quirk of dell boxes of that era; and the strange video-plug that you connected and split into 2xdvi or 2xvga (pre display port). (I could have looked at other d755s too I used in testing earlier, but didn't think it sorry). I also looked for a BIOS way to configure video on my 745, but little is provided (nor if mine is using optional card, no option existed to disable it & use an oboard. I don't want to touch that hardware sorry)

**Bashing-om** · August 4th, 2020

jessej1996; Yukkie-poo on me

See guiverc's last - I am flat out dumb on this and do not know what action can be taken to get the driver to load - It's Intel it "just works"; as the driver is included in the kernel.
This again affirms the driver, though available, is not loading:

i915 1282048 0

Maybe just check and insure that the Intel DDX driver and components are fully installed ?
What shows:

Code:

dpkg -l xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-video-intel libegl1-mesa libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-dri

this but a poke in the dark

**jessej1996** · August 5th, 2020

Code:

~$ dpkg -l xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-video-intel libegl1-mesa libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-dri
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version      Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-=================================
ii  libegl1-mesa:i 18.0.0~rc5-1 i386         transitional dummy package
ii  libgl1-mesa-dr 18.0.0~rc5-1 i386         free implementation of the OpenGL
ii  libgl1-mesa-gl 18.0.0~rc5-1 i386         transitional dummy package
ii  xserver-xorg-c 2:1.19.6-1ub i386         Xorg X server - core server
ii  xserver-xorg-v 2:2.99.917+g i386         X.Org X server -- Intel i8xx, i9x

I think I'm at least starting to see what the problem is haha.

**Bashing-om** · August 5th, 2020

jessej1996; Hummm ...

Something is not coming up right in the versioning:
My 18.04 install for comparison
:

Code:

sysop@x1804mini:~$ dpkg -l xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-video-intel libegl1-mesa libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-dri
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version      Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-=================================
ii  libegl1-mesa:a 20.0.8-0ubun amd64        transitional dummy package
ii  libgl1-mesa-dr 20.0.8-0ubun amd64        free implementation of the OpenGL
un  libgl1-mesa-gl <none>       <none>       (no description available)
ii  xserver-xorg-c 2:1.19.6-1ub amd64        Xorg X server - core server
ii  xserver-xorg-v 2:2.99.917+g amd64        X.Org X server -- Intel i8xx, i9x
sysop@x1804mini:~$

Where I am running Nvidia graphics with the nouveau driver such that "libgl1-mesa-glx" is not used.

So, What is going on with your install ?
Post back:

Code:

uname -a
lsb_release -a
apt policy xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-video-intel libegl1-mesa libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-dri

Could it be that we just need to update your system ?

Maybe Yes

could be - not so yes

**jessej1996** · August 5th, 2020

Code:

~$ uname -a
Linux ubuntu 4.15.0-20-generic #21-Ubuntu SMP Tue Apr 24 06:15:38 UTC 2018 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux
jesse@ubuntu:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:    Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Release:    18.04
Codename:    bionic
jesse@ubuntu:~$ apt policy xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-video-intel libegl1-mesa libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-dri
xserver-xorg-core:
  Installed: 2:1.19.6-1ubuntu4
  Candidate: 2:1.19.6-1ubuntu4.4
  Version table:
     2:1.19.6-1ubuntu4.4 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main i386 Packages
     2:1.19.6-1ubuntu4.2 500
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security/main i386 Packages
 *** 2:1.19.6-1ubuntu4 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
xserver-xorg-video-intel:
  Installed: 2:2.99.917+git20171229-1
  Candidate: 2:2.99.917+git20171229-1
  Version table:
 *** 2:2.99.917+git20171229-1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
libegl1-mesa:
  Installed: 18.0.0~rc5-1ubuntu1
  Candidate: 20.0.8-0ubuntu1~18.04.1
  Version table:
     20.0.8-0ubuntu1~18.04.1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main i386 Packages
     19.2.8-0ubuntu0~18.04.2 500
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security/main i386 Packages
 *** 18.0.0~rc5-1ubuntu1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
libgl1-mesa-glx:
  Installed: 18.0.0~rc5-1ubuntu1
  Candidate: 20.0.8-0ubuntu1~18.04.1
  Version table:
     20.0.8-0ubuntu1~18.04.1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main i386 Packages
     19.2.8-0ubuntu0~18.04.2 500
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security/main i386 Packages
 *** 18.0.0~rc5-1ubuntu1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
libgl1-mesa-dri:
  Installed: 18.0.0~rc5-1ubuntu1
  Candidate: 20.0.8-0ubuntu1~18.04.1
  Version table:
     20.0.8-0ubuntu1~18.04.1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main i386 Packages
     19.2.8-0ubuntu0~18.04.2 500
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security/main i386 Packages
 *** 18.0.0~rc5-1ubuntu1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

**Bashing-om** · August 5th, 2020

jessej1996; Hey hey

Newer components are available - maybe these will make the driver compatible ?

Try - Run terminal commands:

Code:

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

reboot the system, removing the nomodeset parameter.
what results ?

maybe Yes

**jessej1996** · August 8th, 2020

Sorry for the wait; booting after update/upgrade booted in to the login screen for a couple seconds before the screen turned blue

**Bashing-om** · August 9th, 2020

jessej1996; Yuk !

booted in to the login screen for a couple seconds before the screen turned blue

All now up-2-date ?
a new:

Code:

apt policy xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-video-intel libegl1-mesa libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-dri

see now what is installed.

if I know better

I would do different

**jessej1996** · August 10th, 2020

Code:

~$ apt policy xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-video-intel libegl1-mesa libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-dri
xserver-xorg-core:
  Installed: 2:1.19.6-1ubuntu4.4
  Candidate: 2:1.19.6-1ubuntu4.4
  Version table:
 *** 2:1.19.6-1ubuntu4.4 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2:1.19.6-1ubuntu4.2 500
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security/main i386 Packages
     2:1.19.6-1ubuntu4 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main i386 Packages
xserver-xorg-video-intel:
  Installed: 2:2.99.917+git20171229-1
  Candidate: 2:2.99.917+git20171229-1
  Version table:
 *** 2:2.99.917+git20171229-1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
libegl1-mesa:
  Installed: 20.0.8-0ubuntu1~18.04.1
  Candidate: 20.0.8-0ubuntu1~18.04.1
  Version table:
 *** 20.0.8-0ubuntu1~18.04.1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     19.2.8-0ubuntu0~18.04.2 500
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security/main i386 Packages
     18.0.0~rc5-1ubuntu1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main i386 Packages
libgl1-mesa-glx:
  Installed: 20.0.8-0ubuntu1~18.04.1
  Candidate: 20.0.8-0ubuntu1~18.04.1
  Version table:
 *** 20.0.8-0ubuntu1~18.04.1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     19.2.8-0ubuntu0~18.04.2 500
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security/main i386 Packages
     18.0.0~rc5-1ubuntu1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main i386 Packages
libgl1-mesa-dri:
  Installed: 20.0.8-0ubuntu1~18.04.1
  Candidate: 20.0.8-0ubuntu1~18.04.1
  Version table:
 *** 20.0.8-0ubuntu1~18.04.1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     19.2.8-0ubuntu0~18.04.2 500
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security/main i386 Packages
     18.0.0~rc5-1ubuntu1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main i386 Packages

**Bashing-om** · August 10th, 2020

jessej1996; Hummm ...

Shows that the versioning now is consistent

what says now the GPU manager ?

Code:

cat /var/log/gpu-manager.log
lsmod | grep i915

gots to be a reason

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