[SOLVED] HP Pavillion dm4 Video Problems

[Lee2010]

So I finally got around to installing PCLOS on my new laptop  

The thing is though... KDE desktop effects will not enable.

The error given is:

Failed to activate desktop effects using the given configuration options. Settings will be reverted to their previous values.

Check your X configuration. You may also consider changing advanced options, especially changing the compositing type.

lspci gives me this:

[lee@localhost ~]$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller (rev 06)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 05)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 05)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 05)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev 05)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 05)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev a5)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 4 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem (rev 05)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 03)
02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 1000
ff:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers (rev 05)
ff:00.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder (rev 05)
ff:02.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0 (rev 05)
ff:02.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Physical 0 (rev 05)
ff:02.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 05)
ff:02.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 05)


Any help?

[T6]

that list doesn't say what video card or video card driver you have there

can you give us the model of the machine to search for it?

[Lee2010]

Hp pavillion dm4

[T6]

there must be more numbers on that model number, specifying ram, hard disk, size of screen, cards and video card, also cpu(if it is a i3 with a gma integrated or not)

remember to provide as much info as possible

i found 28 matches on hp website, that means 28 variations of hp pavillion dm4 with multiple differences

check under the laptop, check serial number, more precise info

there should be a info somewhere saying hp pavilion dm4-1000 or 1100 or 1200, for each there is 10 submodels

[Lee2010]

My apologies... got to get back to remembering how to properly post on these forum things... :p

Here is a link to the web page detailing all of the specs of my laptop.

http://goo.gl/4rG4B

For graphics it just says Intel HD Graphics.

[menotu]

It does seem the Intel Core ix chips can sometimes cause a few issues with graphics.

Could try going to:

Configure Your Desktop >> Workspace Appearance & Behaviour  >> Desktop Effects >> All Effects

and removing all but one of the effects and try enabling Effects.  If it works try adding some back one at a time.

If you want some effect Compiz may be another option

[Lee2010]

No still not working.

Here is the error given by KDE


Failed to activate desktop effects using the given configuration options. Settings will be reverted to their previous values.

Check your X configuration. You may also consider changing advanced options, especially changing the compositing type.

[Texstar]

You need xorg update from testing

[Lee2010]

Worked like a charm.

Had to reconfigure my xorg for it to take effect.