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zach.winchester@gmail.com

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From: Kansas

Registered: 2024-01-15

Posts: 1

Help with Intel drivers: Audio Controller & Video

I have an older desktop / nettop system I'm trying to extend the life of. It's an Intel Atom based MSI Wind PC MS-7418.

The PCI - Info Center entry for the Audio device lists the following:

"
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
    Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Wind PC MS-7418
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 29
    Memory at fea38000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
    Capabilities: <access denied>
    Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
    Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel
"

PCI - Info Center entry for the Video Controller lists the following

"

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
    Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Wind PC MS-7418
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
    Memory at fea80000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
    I/O ports at dc00 [size=8]
    Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
    Memory at fea40000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
    Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [virtual] [disabled] [size=128K]
    Capabilities: <access denied>
    Kernel driver in use: i915
    Kernel modules: i915

"

CPU - Info Center entry is as follows:

"
Architecture:                       i686
CPU op-mode(s):                     32-bit, 64-bit
Address sizes:                      32 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
Byte Order:                         Little Endian
CPU(s):                             2
On-line CPU(s) list:                0,1
Vendor ID:                          GenuineIntel
Model name:                         Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU  230   @ 1.60GHz
CPU family:                         6
Model:                              28
Thread(s) per core:                 2
Core(s) per socket:                 1
Socket(s):                          1
Stepping:                           2
BogoMIPS:                           3192.00
Flags:                              fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts cpuid aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm movbe lahf_lm dtherm
L1d cache:                          24 KiB (1 instance)
L1i cache:                          32 KiB (1 instance)
L2 cache:                           512 KiB (1 instance)
Vulnerability Gather data sampling: Not affected
Vulnerability Itlb multihit:        Not affected
Vulnerability L1tf:                 Not affected
Vulnerability Mds:                  Not affected
Vulnerability Meltdown:             Not affected
Vulnerability Mmio stale data:      Not affected
Vulnerability Retbleed:             Not affected
Vulnerability Spec rstack overflow: Not affected
Vulnerability Spec store bypass:    Not affected
Vulnerability Spectre v1:           Not affected
Vulnerability Spectre v2:           Not affected
Vulnerability Srbds:                Not affected
Vulnerability Tsx async abort:      Not affected

"

I have 2GB max RAM, running on a 200GB Toshiba HDD. It's slow as heck, but what's not going to be slow on this old of a machine?

My problem with the Audio is that from the Settings application, it displays "Inactive Cards - Built-in Audio" and on the right side it lists as "OFF" with no way to turn it "ON". Clicking on the selection yields "OFF" with no options.

I have not been able to find out how to activate this device yet.

As for the video, the drivers seem to not be correct because there are frequently video artifacts and flashes that are not from my display or the cable as they are both functional on other computer systems, and with Windows running on this netbox prior, in the same configuration, it was functioning perfectly with - at the time - completely up to date drivers.

I have Q4OS on a couple other PCs - one 64bit and an old Asus Netbook that is a 32bit system - and I REALLY love Q4OS and I would really love to have this one join the family. Given the lower end spectrum of device that this PC is, about the only other option I think is out there is older Linux Mint or PeppermintOS or Puppy Linux.

I would much prefer Q4OS and I have been telling all my friends about Q4OS for a couple of months now.

Thank you ver much for all the help you can give me.

Sincerely,

Zach

Rademes

Member

From: Latvia

Registered: 2015-12-13

Posts: 637

Re: Help with Intel drivers: Audio Controller & Video

According to your audio problem, there are some possible solutions over the Internet:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/103611/ … controller
https://askubuntu.com/questions/461391/ … old-laptop
https://antixlinux.com/forum-archive/no … t5106.html

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