Alice in Wonderland Syndrome on Clean BL Install

Arman · 2016-06-24 19:16:29

Hello all,

There is a slight problem which I've been encountering all the way since when I was still running BL live off a USB and carried over into BL when installed.

Don't the proportions of everything seem off?

The default conky configuration definitely looks a bit wacky
The tint2s panel and its icons seem awfully small
The contents of the web browser are rather large given that the zoom there is set to default

Or maybe I'm just going insane.

And one other thing is that grabbing the corners and edges of windows to resize them with the mouse is almost impossible.

I have a hunch that these issues are all related, but I have no ideas as to where to begin.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2016-06-24 19:28:58

Looks like you aren't running the correct drivers

What is the output of:

lspci -k|grep -iA2 vga
glxinfo|grep rendering

You may have to install mesa-utils to get the last command.

KrunchTime · 2016-06-24 19:31:03

@Arman: Love the title of the thread.

damo · 2016-06-24 19:32:30

What screen resolution does arandr say you are using? (Menu -> Preferences -> Display)

The problem with grabbing window edges is a different issue, due to the default Openbox theme settings. You can easily edit the border size in "/usr/share/<themename>/openbox-3/themerc". Either edit as root, or copy the theme to ~/.themes and edit that:

!! Global width settings
border.Width: 1
padding.width: 1
window.handle.width: 0

Then reload the theme.

Or use Alt+R.mouse-Drag near an edge to easily resize without needing to grab the border

Arman · 2016-06-24 20:02:30

Here are those outputs:

arman@ThinkPad:~$ lspci -k|grep -iA2 vga
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 520 (rev 07)
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device 504a
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP USB 3.0 xHCI Controller (rev 21)
arman@ThinkPad:~$ glxinfo|grep rendering
direct rendering: Yes

And arandr says 1920x1080, which is the resolution of this monitor.

Thanks for blindingly fast responses guys!

Head_on_a_Stick · 2016-06-24 20:08:19

Arman wrote:

arman@ThinkPad:~$ lspci -k|grep -iA2 vga
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 520 (rev 07)
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device 504a
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP USB 3.0 xHCI Controller (rev 21)

I think you're running the VESA drivers.

Is there anything in the log?

grep -i intel /var/log/Xorg.0.log

It may be worth uploading the entire content of /vat/log/Xorg.0.log to https://paste.debian.net/

Arman · 2016-06-24 20:19:21

arman@ThinkPad:~$ grep -i intel /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[     3.937] (==) Matched intel as autoconfigured driver 0
[     3.937] (II) LoadModule: "intel"
[     3.937] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/intel_drv.so
[     3.940] (II) Module intel: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[     3.942] (II) intel: Driver for Intel(R) Integrated Graphics Chipsets:
[     3.943] (II) intel: Driver for Intel(R) HD Graphics: 2000-6000
[     3.943] (II) intel: Driver for Intel(R) Iris(TM) Graphics: 5100, 6100
[     3.943] (II) intel: Driver for Intel(R) Iris(TM) Pro Graphics: 5200, 6200, P6300
[     3.952] (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM: Intel(R) SKL Mobile/Desktop Graphics Chipset Accelerated VGA BIOS
[     5.367] (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM: Intel(R) SKL Mobile/Desktop Graphics Chipset Accelerated VGA BIOS
[     5.637] (II) config/udev: Adding input device HDA Intel PCH Dock Mic (/dev/input/event9)
[     5.637] (II) config/udev: Adding input device HDA Intel PCH Mic (/dev/input/event10)
[     5.637] (II) config/udev: Adding input device HDA Intel PCH Dock Headphone (/dev/input/event11)
[     5.637] (II) config/udev: Adding input device HDA Intel PCH Headphone (/dev/input/event12)
[     5.637] (II) config/udev: Adding input device HDA Intel PCH HDMI/DP,pcm=3 (/dev/input/event13)
[     5.638] (II) config/udev: Adding input device HDA Intel PCH HDMI/DP,pcm=7 (/dev/input/event14)
[     5.638] (II) config/udev: Adding input device HDA Intel PCH HDMI/DP,pcm=8 (/dev/input/event15)

Here's the full output: https://paste.debian.net/753216/

Head_on_a_Stick · 2016-06-24 20:29:58

Can you force the Intel driver by creating a configuration file?

sudo -i
mkdir /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d
echo -e 'Section "Device"\n\tIdentifier "Intel Graphics"\n\tDriver "intel"\nEndSection' > /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-hack.conf
exit

Reboot to effect the change, if the desktop won't load use <Ctrl>+<Alt>+F2 to switch to a console screen then log in from there and remove the file:

sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-hack.conf

Arman · 2016-06-24 20:44:32

So I had to remove the directory as you anticipated

Head_on_a_Stick · 2016-06-24 21:19:41

Are you using the newer kernel & Intel drivers?

https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=1185

Arman · 2016-06-25 00:26:11

I believe so, having abided by those instructions. Is there any way for me to confirm whether everything is set up properly?

Head_on_a_Stick · 2016-06-25 09:51:31

Ah yes, sorry.

Use this to check your running kernel version:

uname -a

To check the status of the installed packages:

apt-cache policy xserver-xorg-video-intel

The official Debian recommendation for your hardware under testing/unstable is to remove xserver-xorg-video-intel and use Xorg's builtin modesetting driver instead but you are using an older jessie version of Xorg so this probably won't work as well.

EDIT: I have no idea if it will help but you should probably try installing the Skylake firmware as well (unless you dislike blobs on your system):

sudo apt install firmware-misc-nonfree

Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2016-06-25 09:53:19)

Arman · 2016-06-26 00:22:39

Here are those outputs for ya:

arman@ThinkPad:~$ uname -a
Linux ThinkPad 4.6.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.6.1-1~bpo8+1 (2016-06-14) x86_64 GNU/Linux

and

arman@ThinkPad:~$ apt-cache policy xserver-xorg-video-intel
xserver-xorg-video-intel:
  Installed: 2:2.99.917+git20160522-1~bpo8+1
  Candidate: 2:2.99.917+git20160522-1~bpo8+1
  Version table:
 *** 2:2.99.917+git20160522-1~bpo8+1 0
        100 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie-backports/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2:2.21.15-2+b2 0
        500 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

EDIT: I have no idea if it will help but you should probably try installing the Skylake firmware as well (unless you dislike blobs on your system):
sudo apt install firmware-misc-nonfree

Right, I've already installed this, and I do hate the idea of blobs of course, but apparently not enough.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2016-06-26 20:38:58

Well everything is installed so I have no idea why the Intel (i915) driver isn't loading

Are there any NVIDIA graphics cards hiding away on your system?

As I said, Skylake support in BunsenLabs is sub-optimal so perhaps you should try again after our next release ("Helium").

Do your graphics work correctly with (for example) Fedora 24 in live mode?
https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/

Arman · 2016-06-28 01:35:32

Yeah it's strange!
Nope, just the Intel HD Graphics 520.

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

Do your graphics work correctly with (for example) Fedora 24 in live mode?

Yes―interestingly, even with only the netinstall image!

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

[...] try again after our next release ("Helium").

To be sure! Though, I don't see Debian Stretch being released during my lifetime.

Arman · 2016-06-28 01:40:28

Also, I'd like to add how grateful I am to you Head_on_a_Stick for all the support. It's the knowledge that we can rely on support from amazing community members such as yourself that absolute beginners such as myself are able to keep from giving up. Thank you!

Last edited by Arman (2016-06-28 07:14:05)

Head_on_a_Stick · 2016-06-28 06:41:39

Arman wrote:

Though, I don't see Debian Stretch being released during my lifetime.

Actually, stretch is due to be "frozen" in February 2017 with the release of Debian 9 roughly six months after that.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-a … 00000.html

Arman wrote:

Thank you!

You're welcome

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