topic title: AntiX M11 on PII: video and audio problems
Posts: 8
Maiden
Joined: 21 May 2011
#1
Hello, first of all i'm sorry for my bad english, but i don't speak it very well (i'm italian).

I have installed AntiX M11 with Ice-WM on a old computer, a pentium II 350 mhz with 384 mb of ram, but i have some problems with video and audio....

the video card is an intel 82740 i740 (i can read this on the system's informations), and the problem is that the video is very slow and not fluid..for example, when i move a window on the desktop, it moves jerkily...the same problem when i scroll a page on the browser....
i think it's a video driver problem, but i haven't a lot of experience with linux, and it's the first time that i try AntiX, so i don't know what i have to do....

for the audio, the system doesn't recognize the audio card, and i still don't know what i have to do...

can you advise me what can i do??

thank you very much....
anticapitalista
Posts: 5,956
Site Admin
Joined: 11 Sep 2007
#2
Firstly, welcome to antiX.

Did you set up a swap partition? As the box is old both CPU power and RAM is low so a swap of about 500MB is advised.

Post output of inxi -F from a terminal (or antiX control centre ->Hardware->PC Information->All short) so we can see the hardware for audio and video drivers.
Posts: 8
Maiden
Joined: 21 May 2011
#3
thank you for welcome and for the answer...

yes, i set up a swap partition, it is of 800 MB....

the result of inxi -F is below:

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System:    Host Home Kernel 2.6.36-1-mepis i686 (32 bit) Distro antiX-M11-486 Jayaben Desai 01 May 2011
CPU:       Single core Pentium II (Deschutes) (-UP-) cache 512 KB flags (-) bmips 701.72 clocked at 350.863 MHz 
Graphics:  Card: Intel 82740 (i740) AGP Graphics Accelerator bus-ID: 01:00.0 X.Org 1.9.5 Res: 800x600@60.0hz 
           GLX Renderer Software Rasterizer GLX Version 2.1 Mesa 7.10 Direct Rendering Yes
Audio:     Card Failed to Detect Sound Card!
Network:   Card NetGear WG111v3 54 Mbps Wireless [realtek RTL8187B] usb-ID: 0846:4260
Disks:     HDD Total Size: 26.8GB (9.3% used) 1: /dev/sdb ST320014A 20.0GB 
           2: /dev/sda Maxtor_90680D4 6.8GB 
Partition: ID:/ size: 5.0G used: 2.2G (46%) fs: ext4 ID:/home size: 13G used: 227M (2%) fs: ext4 
           ID:swap-1 size: 0.84GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap 
Info:      Processes 83 Uptime 6 min Memory 103.0/375.0MB Runlevel 5 Client Shell inxi 1.4.95
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rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#4

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lspci | grep -i audio
as root in terminal to see what shows for soundcard.
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Maiden
Joined: 21 May 2011
#5
i tried it as root, but nothing happens... __{{emoticon}}__
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rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#6
Ok. try

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lspci -v | less
it will be a long readout. Post in code tags and we will look for a audio section of readout.
Posts: 8
Maiden
Joined: 21 May 2011
#7
this is the result:

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00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64
        Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
        Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 1.0
        Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64
        I/O behind bridge: 0000d000-0000dfff
        Memory behind bridge: e7000000-e8ffffff
        Prefetchable memory behind bridge: e9000000-e9ffffff

00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) (prog-if 80 [Master])
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64
        [virtual] Memory at 000001f0 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8]
        [virtual] Memory at 000003f0 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [size=1]
        [virtual] Memory at 00000170 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8]
        [virtual] Memory at 00000370 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [size=1]
        I/O ports at f000 [size=16]
        Kernel driver in use: ata_piix

00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
        I/O ports at e000 [size=32]
        Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
        Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 9

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82740 (i740) AGP Graphics Accelerator (rev 21) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 01ff
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
        Memory at e9000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=16M]
        Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
        [virtual] Expansion ROM at e7000000 [disabled] [size=256K]
        Capabilities: [d0] AGP version 1.0
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1

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(END)
i hope i did it well..it is a bit strange because after that command the terminal became unusable (no possibility to enter other commands) and because if i zoom out the terminal's window i see fewer lines and there's no possibility to scroll up or down to see all lines...so i have to zoom out a lot (with very small size of characters) e then copy all lines....
i hope you understand what i want to say, i have some difficulty in expressing this concept...sorry....

EDIT: i edit the lines in the code because previously i didn't enter the command as root, sorry....
Last edited by Maiden on 24 May 2011, 17:59, edited 1 time in total.
Posts: 516
oldhoghead
Site Admin
Joined: 01 Oct 2007
#8
Maiden,

Welcome to antiX, how about trying this:

reboot and when the grub screen comes up add this boot cheat line to the boot code:

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agp=off
hit enter and see if it boots normally and if it resolves your video problems.

Also some older boxes will work better with the cheat

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nodma
cheers,
ohh
Posts: 8
Maiden
Joined: 21 May 2011
#9
oldhoghead thank you for welcome....
i will try as soon as possible and i will post here th results...
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rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#10
Ok. We got cutoff at vga. Did not make it to audio. So. Try using


========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/"
linktext was:"http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/"
====================================


Follow the webpage instructions.

Edit: Forget copy and paste in below sentence.

Copy and paste their readout in code tags in next post. Hopefully your sound card chip will show in their readout.

Doh __{{emoticon}}__ . Forget above about copy and paste. Just need the link to the readout on that webpage is all.

So just copy and paste webpage link.
Posts: 8
Maiden
Joined: 21 May 2011
#11
i'm very busy in these days, so i will do it as soon as possible....
a few days ago i only tried the boot code"agp=off" and"nodma", ad recommended by oldhoghead, but the system didn't start (i don't remember the errors shown in video, i will try another time if necessary)....
thank you, i will post that link soon....