I have previously used a couple of Linux distros; before Ubuntu, I mainly used Linux Mint. I used the instructions on THIS site to get my Mint sped up.
So, I was thinking of doing some of those things on Ubuntu according to that link. I was following the instructions on the "Improve video performance for Intel graphics" part of the article. When I tried to use modesetting instead of the default driver installed and ran the command inxi -G
I found out that the "drivers" option isn't showing intel...
Graphics: Card: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller
Display Server: X.Org 1.19.3 drivers: (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
Resolution: [email protected]
GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Haswell Desktop
GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 17.0.7
On Mint and the other distros that I've used, this option used to show as the following:
drivers: intel(unloaded: modesetting)
So, what's going on here on Ubuntu?
When I tried to uninstall outdated driver xserver-xorg-video-intel as per the instructions, I found out that I don't even have that installed!
sudo apt-get remove xserver-xorg-video-intel
[sudo] password for sakib:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package 'xserver-xorg-video-intel' is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
This should mean that I'm already using modesetting, shouldn't it? Using the command grep modesetting /var/log/Xorg.0.log
gave me the following output:
$ grep modesetting /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[ 19.509] (==) Matched modesetting as autoconfigured driver 0
[ 19.509] (II) LoadModule: "modesetting"
[ 19.509] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/modesetting_drv.so
[ 19.519] (II) Module modesetting: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 19.532] (II) modesetting: Driver for Modesetting Kernel Drivers: kms
The first line is valued zero, meaning that I'm not using modesetting either!
So to narrow it down, here are my questions:
- Why isn't
inxi -G
reporting any intel driver as it did in other distros? - It shows two unloaded "drivers"- fbdev, vesa; but no unloaded "modesetting" driver; this is really confusing with respect to my previous experience with Linux...
'xserver-xorg-video-intel'
is not installed, so what driver am I using?- I want to use "modesetting", how can I do that?
If it's any help here's my output of inxi -Fx
System: Host: apollonius Kernel: 4.10.0-28-generic x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 5.4.0)
Desktop: Unity 7.4.0 (Gtk 3.18.9-1ubuntu3.3)
Distro: Ubuntu 16.04 xenial
Machine: System: ASUS product: All Series
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: H81M-C v: Rev X.0x
Bios: American Megatrends v: 3501 date: 10/21/2016
CPU: Quad core Intel Core i5-4460 (-MCP-) cache: 6144 KB
flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 25541
clock speeds: max: 3400 MHz 1: 1345 MHz 2: 1500 MHz 3: 1559 MHz
4: 1113 MHz
Graphics: Card: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller
bus-ID: 00:02.0
Display Server: X.Org 1.19.3 drivers: (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
Resolution: [email protected]
GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Haswell Desktop
GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 17.0.7 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio: Card Intel 8 Series/C220 Series High Definition Audio Controller
driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.10.0-28-generic
Network: Card: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: e000 bus-ID: 03:00.0
IF: enp3s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full
mac: f8:32:e4:9d:66:b6
Drives: HDD Total Size: 507.9GB (2.8% used)
ID-1: /dev/sda model: TOSHIBA_DT01ACA0 size: 500.1GB
ID-2: USB /dev/sdb model: USB_Flash_Drive size: 7.8GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 113G used: 4.9G (5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3
ID-2: swap-1 size: 8.00GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda4
RAID: No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 29.8C mobo: 27.8C
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 0
Info: Processes: 209 Uptime: 1:56 Memory: 1226.3/7852.7MB
Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 5.4.0
Client: Shell (bash 4.3.481) inxi: 2.2.35