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(SOLVED) vga emachines G525

blfriis

Mon May 13, 2013 10:35:10 pm

Hi all of you I'm having some graphical issues.. its a emachine G525 I can only boot in graphic safe mode, and then the screen is flickering.If I boot in the normal way the screen is black..Some Ideas


per@per-eMachines-G525:~$ sudo lshw -c display
[sudo] password for per:
*-display:0 UNCLAIMED
description: VGA compatible controller
product: Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
version: 09
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:90000000-903fffff memory:80000000-8fffffff ioport:50f0(size=8)
*-display:1 UNCLAIMED
description: Display controller
product: Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2.1
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.1
version: 09
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:93400000-934fffff
per@per-eMachines-G525:~$

blfriis

Mon May 13, 2013 10:49:30 pm

I've done a full update but the issue remains :(

blfriis

Mon May 13, 2013 11:36:09 pm

I have now solved the issue in terminal
Code:
gksu gedit /etc/init.d/rc.local

And at the end add this line
Code:
setpci -s 00:02.0 F4.B=80

then save and close and reboot ;)