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Fixing display issues on Intel 82845GL

rated 0 times [ 3] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 5816 / 3 Years ago, mon, july 26, 2021, 1:24:01

I have opened up this question on launchpad too, but in the interest of getting a bigger response base I am posting it here, hoping someone will pick it up.

Natty doesn't behave very well with the Intel 82845GL chipset. I booted my old machine with Natty today to test drive it. The specs are:

Processor: Celeron 2.4GHz
Video: Intel 845GL
RAM: 1GB

The first problem is that the display is borked! What do I mean? Well, see for yourself:

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If that gets fixed (and it did for a while but is back now), Unity is disabled.

I think these issues are owed to hardware acceleration being disabled...or in other words not the right driver for my hardware. A google search on 'intel 82845GL ubuntu' does return other users having similar problems in the past but I haven't been able to pick out a solution in the many many discussions on the subject- partly owed to my 'linux naivety' I guess...but maybe you can help?

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answered 3 Years ago ndeecru · Accepted Answer

Unity 2D is designed for old chipsets such as the 845 and 855 intel series.

Your issues are most probably due to buggy old drivers together with Compiz incompatibilities.

Suggest boot into recovery mode - with network support. Then install unity-2D

How do I install and switch to the Unity 2D desktop?

I have found with my i855 laptop that I need to boot with an extra grub parameter otherwise I get a similar login screwed up display -

can I suggest that you also see if either grub string i915.modeset=0 or i915.modeset=1 works for your PC. Follow my answer here on how to add it to grub - instructions also include how to fix in grub permanently.

As an alternative to Unity-2D, you could try a light-weight distribution such as Lubuntu (or possibly Xubuntu) which should work much better with very old graphics chipsets such as the i8xx chipsets.