Google Earth [Solved]

[Kelvin]

Not sure if any of this will be of help, but on my HP same vintage as yours, I had an issue at one point with loading the 6.0 and 6.1 kernels, and the issue was somehow memory / video related.

I tried each of these lines on kernel load separately like you are supposed to do, but nothing changed it. Out of desperation, I tried ALL of them on the kernel load line and it worked. No clue why and removing any one of them the system froze again. ( None of these were needed on the 6.2 kernel and later btw!)

The part of interest was that I was playing around in memory and video both... You can look up what each one is supposed to do, but maybe doing something like this would force it to use video differently and change what is going on?

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 iommu=calgary intel_iommu=on intel_iommu=igfx_off vesa=0

Want make sure I understand. You are suggesting I insert the code above into GRUB at boot edit "e"?

If that is correct, where do I insert this in the existing text?

[CharlesV]

I personally, use MX Boot Options - kernel Parameters edit box

And the complete line I used from my notes was :

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quiet splash iommu=calgary intel_iommu=on intel_iommu=igfx_off vesa=0

[Kelvin]

So added the code to GRUB via boot edit

No change with Google Earth

Here is the QSI, did not seem to make any change.

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Snapshot created on: 20230415_1837
System:    Kernel: 5.10.0-23-amd64 [5.10.179-2] x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10.0-23-amd64 root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash 
           iommu=calgary intel_iommu=on intel_iommu=igfx_off vesa=0 
           Desktop: Xfce 4.18.1 tk: Gtk 3.24.24 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm 4.18.0 vt: 7 
           dm: LightDM 1.26.0 Distro: MX-21.3_x64 Wildflower April 15  2023 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: Sony product: VPCEA46FM v: C608VVUV serial: <filter> Chassis: 
           type: 10 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: Sony model: VAIO serial: <filter> BIOS: American Megatrends v: R1170Y8 
           date: 01/28/2011 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 49.1 Wh (100.0%) condition: 49.1/57.2 Wh (85.8%) volts: N/A 
           min: 123.6 model: Sony Corp. type: Li-ion serial: N/A status: Full 
CPU:       Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core i3 M 380 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Nehalem 
           family: 6 model-id: 25 (37) stepping: 5 microcode: 7 cache: L2: 3 MiB 
           flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 20215 
           Speed: 1209 MHz min/max: 933/2533 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1209 2: 1170 3: 1209 
           4: 1134 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled 
           Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable 
           Type: mds status: Vulnerable: Clear CPU buffers attempted, no microcode; SMT vulnerable 
           Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
           Type: mmio_stale_data status: Unknown: No mitigations 
           Type: retbleed status: Not affected 
           Type: spec_store_bypass 
           mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
           Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
           Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW, STIBP: 
           conditional, RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected 
           Type: srbds status: Not affected 
           Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel Core Processor Integrated Graphics vendor: Sony driver: i915 v: kernel 
           bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0046 class-ID: 0300 
           Device-2: Acer USB 2.0 Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-1.2:3 
           chip-ID: 5986:01a5 class-ID: 0e02 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.14 compositor: xfwm4 v: 4.18.0 driver: loaded: intel 
           display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1 
           Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1366x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 361x203mm (14.2x8.0") 
           s-diag: 414mm (16.3") 
           Monitor-1: LVDS1 res: 1366x768 hz: 60 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics (ILK) v: 2.1 Mesa 22.0.5 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel 5 Series/3400 Series High Definition Audio vendor: Sony 
           driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:3b56 class-ID: 0403 
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.0-23-amd64 running: yes 
           Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes 
Network:   Device-1: Intel Centrino Advanced-N + WiMAX 6250 [Kilmer Peak] driver: iwlwifi 
           v: kernel modules: wl port: e000 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:0087 class-ID: 0280 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Marvell Yukon Optima 88E8059 [PCIe Gigabit Ethernet with AVB] vendor: Sony 
           driver: sky2 v: 1.30 port: b000 bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 11ab:4381 class-ID: 0200 
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
           Device-3: Intel WiMAX Connection 2400m type: USB driver: i2400m_usb bus-ID: 1-1.5:4 
           chip-ID: 8086:0186 class-ID: 0000 
           IF: wmx0 state: down mac: <filter> 
Bluetooth: Device-1: Foxconn / Hon Hai Foxconn T77H114 BCM2070 [Single-Chip Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR 
           Adapter] 
           type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-1.6:5 chip-ID: 0489:e00f class-ID: fe01 
           serial: <filter> 
           Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 5 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 1.2 lmp-v: 2.1 
           sub-v: 4203 hci-v: 2.1 rev: 254 
           Info: acl-mtu: 1021:8 sco-mtu: 64:1 link-policy: rswitch hold sniff park 
           link-mode: slave accept service-classes: rendering, capturing, object transfer, audio 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 596.17 GiB used: 7.22 GiB (1.2%) 
           SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
           ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Toshiba model: MK6465GSX size: 596.17 GiB 
           block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 5400 
           serial: <filter> rev: 2H scheme: MBR 
Partition: ID-1: / raw-size: 588.16 GiB size: 577.86 GiB (98.25%) used: 7.22 GiB (1.2%) fs: ext4 
           dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 
Swap:      Kernel: swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) 
           ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 dev: /dev/sda2 
           maj-min: 8:2 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 58.0 C mobo: 58.0 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:     Packages: note: see --pkg apt: 1975 lib: 990 flatpak: 0 
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main contrib non-free
           2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ bullseye-security main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-earth-pro.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/deb/ stable main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
           1: deb http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ bullseye main non-free
           2: deb http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ bullseye ahs
Info:      Processes: 219 Uptime: 1m wakeups: 2 Memory: 7.43 GiB used: 937.4 MiB (12.3%) 
           Init: SysVinit v: 2.96 runlevel: 5 default: 5 tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: N/A 
           alt: 10 Client: shell wrapper v: 5.1.4-release inxi: 3.3.06 
Boot Mode: BIOS (legacy, CSM, MBR)

[CharlesV]

and still it is using the i915 driver. Lets add that back in as Tim suggested

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 quiet splash iommu=calgary intel_iommu=on intel_iommu=igfx_off vesa=0 i915.modeset-1 

and then another QSI please.

[CharlesV]

Also, lets make sure there is nothing resetting that driver...

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grep -r intel /etc/X11/xorg.conf* /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf*

If it shows any files, then rename those and restart.

[Kelvin]

Hello,

Sweatness!!!!!!!!!!

Sweatness.png

First I renamed /etc/X11/xorg.conf to xorg_conf.bak which was returned by the grep search

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grep -r intel /etc/X11/xorg.conf* /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf*

So I edited /etc/default/grub, adding the following after quiet splash

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 iommu=calgary intel_iommu=on intel_iommu=igfx_off vesa=0

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Previous
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel Core Processor Integrated Graphics vendor: Sony driver: i915 v: kernel 
           bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0046 class-ID: 0300 
           Device-2: Acer USB 2.0 Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-1.2:3 
           chip-ID: 5986:01a5 class-ID: 0e02 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.14 compositor: xfwm4 v: 4.18.0 driver: loaded: intel 
           display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1 
           Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1366x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 361x203mm (14.2x8.0") 
           s-diag: 414mm (16.3") 
           Monitor-1: LVDS1 res: 1366x768 hz: 60 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics (ILK) v: 2.1 Mesa 22.0.5 direct render: Yes
           
Working Results         
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel Core Processor Integrated Graphics vendor: Sony driver: i915 v: kernel 
           bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0046 class-ID: 0300 
           Device-2: Acer USB 2.0 Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-1.2:3 
           chip-ID: 5986:01a5 class-ID: 0e02 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.14 compositor: xfwm4 v: 4.18.0 driver: 
           loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1 
           Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1366x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 361x203mm (14.2x8.0") 
           s-diag: 414mm (16.3") 
           Monitor-1: LVDS-1 res: 1366x768 hz: 60 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics (ILK) v: 2.1 Mesa 22.0.5 direct render: Yes 

I cannot explain why this worked, maybe someone more knowledgeable can elaborate.

[CharlesV]

Excellent!! Most likely it was that xorg.conf was forcing the intel driver to be reloaded!

If you want to experiment a little more, you can start attempting to unload those grub additions. But if your all good with everything.. I woudl say run it a while and see how it all works out!!

[Kelvin]

I want thank everyone who weighed in on this, I appreciate you giving your time, knowledge and experience!

I will experiment more and post experience here.

Thanks everyone!

[CharlesV]

Your very welcome! And when your comfortable with the fix, please mark the solution as solved. (upper right check mark on the post that resolved it. ) You can still keep posting.. if you like.