On Sat, 13 Jan 2024 10:19:48 -0700 Charles Curley <charlescur...@charlescurley.com> wrote:
> I have just installed Bookworm on my ancient Lenovo T520 (2011), > replacing Bullseye. I suspect the problem is somewhere in the video > driver chain. Any thoughts on how to proceed further with this? > > Upon trying to run chromium, I get: > > charles@jhegaala:~$ chromium & > [2] 33609 > charles@jhegaala:~$ libva error: > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so init failed > > charles@jhegaala:~$ I seem to have solved this problem, entirely by accident. I went to shut down the machine, and it got stuck trying to shut down wpa_supplicant and Network Manager. Ten minutes into the shutdown, I finally pulled the plug. A few reboots and shutdowns later, I decided to try another kernel. I had recently installed Bookworm from the 12.0 netinst CD image, so I had the 12.0 kernel, linux-image-6.1.0-9-amd64, 6.1.27-1, as my fall-back kernel. I rebooted to that, and was able to shut down and boot in quick order. So I purged the newer kernel, inux-image-6.1.0-15-amd64, leaving the older one in place. I then set up for bookworm backports, and installed a kernel from backports, linux-image-6.5.0-0.deb12.4-amd64, 6.5.10-1~bpo12+1. Not only does than kernel give me snappy boot and shutdown, but chromium runs, and show videos. I still get the libva error message, but chromium runs anyway. All of which leads me to suspect that the error message was a soviet herring, as Max Nikulin <maniku...@gmail.com> suggested elsewhere in this thread. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
