Wifi, graphic and boot issues after upgrade to mint 17
Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 2:35 am
I decided to make one topic with all three questions combined in this section of the forum, since all of them occured after upgrading mint to 17. Everything was working fine under 16.
I got a sony vaio SVP laptop from february this year. After upgrading it from mint 16 to 17 the following issues appeared:
- The laptop does not recognise a monitor on boot. It gives a black screen, and I have to press ctrl+alt+del to have it reboot, after which it boots fine.
==> I googled for this problem and every solution I found basically said get proprietary drivers, but I don't have an nvidia card and as far as I could find intel cards run on generic drivers.
- The wifi is extremely unstable and has terrible reception. I did not have this problem in 16, it is new!!
==> I googled for this and it said it was a problem in the linux kernel, and to update the kernel to the latest version. I followed a tutorial to do this for mint, but that caused the following:
- If I run a dual screen setup, resolution gets reset to basic values, although the control panel will still display both resolutions as HD (I use one screen with 1920*1200 and one with 1920*1080), if I boot one only one screen, be it laptop or external, display works okay.
I uninstalled the latest kernel (downloaded latest stable), and installed the latest kernel that was in the mint updater. This did not solve the problem and I still can't run a dual screen setup.
Here is my inxi output:
I got a sony vaio SVP laptop from february this year. After upgrading it from mint 16 to 17 the following issues appeared:
- The laptop does not recognise a monitor on boot. It gives a black screen, and I have to press ctrl+alt+del to have it reboot, after which it boots fine.
==> I googled for this problem and every solution I found basically said get proprietary drivers, but I don't have an nvidia card and as far as I could find intel cards run on generic drivers.
- The wifi is extremely unstable and has terrible reception. I did not have this problem in 16, it is new!!
==> I googled for this and it said it was a problem in the linux kernel, and to update the kernel to the latest version. I followed a tutorial to do this for mint, but that caused the following:
- If I run a dual screen setup, resolution gets reset to basic values, although the control panel will still display both resolutions as HD (I use one screen with 1920*1200 and one with 1920*1080), if I boot one only one screen, be it laptop or external, display works okay.
I uninstalled the latest kernel (downloaded latest stable), and installed the latest kernel that was in the mint updater. This did not solve the problem and I still can't run a dual screen setup.
Here is my inxi output:
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System: Host: harrenhal Kernel: 3.13.0-37-generic x86_64 (64 bit, gcc: 4.8.2) Desktop: Gnome Distro: Linux Mint 17 Qiana
Machine: System: Sony (portable) product: SVP1321C5E version: C60CAFUV
Mobo: Sony model: VAIO Bios: American Megatrends version: R1043V7 date: 11/21/2013
CPU: Dual core Intel Core i5-4200U CPU (-HT-MCP-) cache: 3072 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 9178.66
Clock Speeds: 1: 800.00 MHz 2: 800.00 MHz 3: 800.00 MHz 4: 800.00 MHz
Graphics: Card: Intel Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller bus-ID: 00:02.0
X.Org: 1.15.1 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: 1920x1200@60.0hz
GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Haswell Mobile GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 10.2.2 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio: Card-1: Intel Lynx Point-LP HD Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
Card-2: Intel Haswell-ULT HD Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:03.0
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ver: k3.13.0-37-generic
Network: Card: Intel Wireless 7260 driver: iwlwifi ver: in-tree: bus-ID: 01:00.0
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives: HDD Total Size: 3128.6GB (72.2% used) 1: id: /dev/sda model: SAMSUNG_MZHPU128 size: 128.0GB
2: USB id: /dev/sdb model: My_Book_1140 size: 3000.6GB
Partition: ID: / size: 50G used: 33G (70%) fs: ext4 ID: swap-1 size: 4.44GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap
RAID: No RAID devices detected - /proc/mdstat and md_mod kernel raid module present
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 44.0C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 171 Uptime: 37 min Memory: 1367.1/7892.4MB Runlevel: 2 Gcc sys: 4.8.2 Client: Shell inxi: 1.8.4