Problems with Intel HD Graphics 3000

[Holysider]

I have some problems with Intel HD Graphics 3000 video subsystem. I have found that video fails to display (while video's audio track goes on ok) in all the players I have (Totem, Xine, VLC and (S)Mplayer), leaving video area black during playback. However, Avidemux plays it back with no problems, and (S)Mplayer works too when using the x11 video output. Compiz don't work as well. I tried to uninstall the "xserver-xorg-video-intel" package, and it seemes like it solves the issue with video playback (but not with VLC), but adds another one - losing in the dual-head functionality, leaving single screen for all the video heads.

How can I solve this issue the way not to break something in the AV Linux?

Some details:

Computer: Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E520
CPU: Intel Core i3-2330M
Distro: AV Linux 5.0.2
Kernel: 3.0.16-avl-7-pae
Some packages versions:
        xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.13.0-6
        mesa 7.7.1-5
        xorg 1:7.5+8+squeeze1
        libdrm-intel1 2.4.23-0.0
        Libva 0.8.4-2s

[varpa]

Here is one thing you can try, but it is just speculation.   The video players can use different video driver backends, like XV or GL or others.  I think the default is XV.  You could try one on the others and see if that helps.   I learned about this with ATI driver on Fedora16.  It turns out the ATI driver does not work with XV - causes X windows to crash.   Changing xine, vlc to the GL video driver fixed this.

[rickbol]

I have the same problem as Holysider with avl5.0.3 on a biostar th67+ w/i5 intel chip w/onboard graphics (not sure if the i5 integrated graphics is the 3000 or 2000 series). Seems this could be an issue with the xserver-xorg-video-intel driver? I have a different partition on this machine that runs Debian Wheezy, and video works fine on it.

Also odd that avidemux can render the video (in AVL), but nothing else can (Xine, Movie Player, VLC).

xorg.0.log captures errors:
(EE) intel(0): Failed to submit batch buffer, expect rendering corruption or even a frozen display: Input/output error.

Any update to xserver-xorg-video-intel or a workaround?

Thx, rickbol

[trulan]

I believe you're on the right track.  Try upgrading xserver-xorg-video-intel using the squeeze-backports repository, it won't hurt anything and it will very likely help.  I know there are some newer Intel GPU's that need the newer xorg driver to work properly.

[rickbol]

Not to put too fine a point on it but manually installing xserver-xorg-video-intel from squeeze backports resolved this issue for me.

   apt-get -t squeeze-backports install xserver-xorg-video-intel

This installs a number of package updates in addition to the driver.

Thanks for the suggestion,

rickbol