Newly installed 24.10, on Acer AOD257 laptop - a repurposed Netbook - 1GB RAM, 240GB HD.
Settings are 99.99% out of the box. Slow but passable.
My problem is with appearance of text associated with icons - missing on certain panes such as initial login and Discovery.
Can anyone suggest cure?
Thank you!
Did this problem always exist or did it occur sometime after you made that 0.01% change?
0.01% refers to changes at initial set-up, ie. Location and user credentials. Otherwise, configuration is out-of-box.
Give me the results of lspci -nnk, please.
Also: is there anywhere that works correctly? If so, can you enumerate as much as you can which applications work and which ones don’t?
Thank you for pursuing this - most appreciated.
GUI mostly works - just a few notable examples so far. This is my first experience with lubuntu - I need time to explore.
admin@admin-aod257:~$ lspci -nnk
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Atom Processor D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx DMI Bridge [8086:a010] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:0590]
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Atom Processor D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:a011] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:0590]
Kernel driver in use: i915
Kernel modules: i915
00:02.1 Display controller [0380]: Intel Corporation Atom Processor D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:a012] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:0590]
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Controller [8086:27d8] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:0590]
Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 1 [8086:27d0] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:0590]
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 2 [8086:27d2] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:0590]
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1c.2 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 3 [8086:27d4] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:0590]
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1d.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:27c8] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:0590]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.1 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:27c9] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:0590]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.3 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:27cb] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:0590]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.7 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:27cc] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:0590]
Kernel driver in use: ehci-pci
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev e2)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:0590]
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation NM10 Family LPC Controller [8086:27bc] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:0590]
Kernel modules: lpc_ich
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family SATA Controller [AHCI mode] [8086:27c1] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:0590]
Kernel driver in use: ahci
Kernel modules: ahci
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family SMBus Controller [8086:27da] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:0590]
Kernel driver in use: i801_smbus
Kernel modules: i2c_i801
01:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller [10ec:8136] (rev 05)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:0590]
Kernel driver in use: r8169
Kernel modules: r8169
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) [168c:002b] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Foxconn International, Inc. Device [105b:e016]
Kernel driver in use: ath9k
Kernel modules: ath9k
03:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS5209 PCI Express Card Reader [10ec:5209] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:0590]
Kernel driver in use: rtsx_pci
Kernel modules: rtsx_pci
When we were testing out Picom backends, we couldn’t choose the more capable backend and have it work correctly with i915. That said, is Picom running?
Also, are you saying that the vast majority of applications display correctly? Can you specifically confirm that PCManFM-Qt, Featherpad, KDE Partition Manager, Startup Disk Creator, Lubuntu Update and Plasma Discover seem to display correctly?
I don’t even know what picom is… However, as below:
admin@admin-aod257:~$ apt list picom
picom/oracular,now 10.2-3build2 amd64 [installed,automatic]
admin@admin-aod257:~$ ps -ef | grep -i picom
admin 1481 1304 0 19:03 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/picom
admin 1580 1253 0 19:03 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --color=auto -i picom
All those apps you listed seem OK - except “Plasma Discover” - I cannot find it.
However, login screen… is critical - as is, really bad out-of-box user experience.
Plasma Discover is just displayed as Discover, actually. And nevermind that because you showed it in your original post as being problematic.
Picom is an X Compositor. It adds visual effects otherwise not possible. Let’s try turning it off and seeing if somehow that doesn’t help:
Did that do the trick?
I think you missed “LXQt Session Settings”. However, disabling picom didn’t improve anything (including, after reboot).
“LXQt Settings,” yes. Sorry, I switched to fancymenu and it appears to do things differently with regards to laying out the menu.
What are the contents of /var/log/Xorg.0.log? And what about journalctl -b?
This is a known problem with newer intel drivers not supporting older chipsets. See if this link helps you.
I forgot about that. FWIW, don’t link to the Lubuntu Discourse. That’s going to get sunset soon enough.
So to copy/paste:
I have found this xorg conf setting thats brings back the fonts
for plasma-discover and the sddm login screen.Section "Device" Identifier "Intel Graphics" Driver "intel" Option "DRI" "1" EndSectionI don’t know why it works, but I do know that it forces
mesa to render via LLVMpipe instead of the i915 driver.
(classic drivers were removed from mesa v22).By default there is no conf file on a clean lubuntu install.
This makes xorg use the modesetting driver, (which internally
uses the intel driver).So you will have to create it;
sudo featherpad /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf
Put in the contents above and save it.
logout
loginYou may lose a bit of performance depending on whether you
had a real gpu or not (the mesa native drivers were always
faster than llvmpipe/which is a sort of gpu emulator/).If things go wrong, CTRL-ALT-F3 and login,
sudo rm /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf
Then reboot.
It might be good to create a bug for this if it already hasn’t been created.
@guiverc I know you have a boatload of i915 machines. Have you seen similar issues with them?
I have found this xorg conf setting thats brings back the fonts
for plasma-discover and the sddm login screen.
Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel Graphics"
Driver "intel"
Option "DRI" "1"
EndSection
Thank you this fixed it!
Do I still need to disable picom?
I have very low-end laptop - I’d prefer speed over GUI quality - anything I can do to speed it up?
It’s not picom related, so you can switch that off if you want to save a bit of cpu.
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