Intel HD Graphics 4400 and Debian 7.6 wheezy

[chrizan]

HI,

I made a dual boot installation (grub bootloader / Windows 8.1) including the desktop environment. Debian starts up but keeps hanging on a blank screen with an underline, gnome does not start. Alt+F1 brings up a terminal.

startx leads to "Fatal server error: no screens found" and "xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused"

in Xorg.O.log:
(EE) VESA(0): V_BIOS address 0x0 out of range
(EE) VESA(0): Screen(s) not found, but none have a usable configuration

I'm new to debian and I'm aware there's plenty of information around addressing similar issues. I've been googling around quite a while but none of the informations seemed to be useful. Since I'm using a widespread standard hardware I think there 'must be' a straight forward way to fix that (no upgrade to an unstable version)

System:
Acer Aspire E5-571-597B / Core i5-4210U / Intel HD Graphics 4400
Debian 7.6 wheezy / kernel version 3.2.0-4-amd64
lspci | grep -E "VGA|3D" : 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0b)

Thanks

[chrizan]

yeah, i tried with backport drivers and another "google session" but nothing worked. Finally installed jessie (netinst) and everything's fine thanx

[stevepusser]

I did see one user report that the newer Intel driver (xserver-xorg-video-intel) in wheezy-backports only worked well with the newest kernel in backports--something to do with a newer DRM (display rendering manager?) in the new kernel. Otherwise it slowed his graphics down quite a bit (on a chipset fully supported by Wheezy.) It would be helpful to other users if this were tested, since Wheezy does not fully support the Haswell graphics in the 4400.

[pintero]

Can anyone actually confirm a working Haswell graphics in Wheezy with latest backported driver and kernel?
Based on my testing, at this moment it seems to be not working at all!

i3-4130 with HD 4400
fresh install of Wheezy 7.7
linux-image-3.16-0.bpo.2-amd64
xserver-xorg-video-intel (2:2.21.15-2~bpo70+1)

Xorg cannot start and throws an errror:

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[    46.421] (II) intel(0): Creating default Display subsection in Screen section
	"Default Screen Section" for depth/fbbpp 24/32
[    46.421] (==) intel(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
[    46.421] (==) intel(0): RGB weight 888
[    46.421] (==) intel(0): Default visual is TrueColor
[    46.421] (--) intel(0): Integrated Graphics Chipset: Intel(R) HD Graphics
[    46.421] (II) UnloadModule: "intel"
[    46.421] (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

Driver itself seems to be the right one with Haswell support:

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[    46.414] (II) intel: Driver for Intel(R) Integrated Graphics Chipsets:
	i810, i810-dc100, i810e, i815, i830M, 845G, 854, 852GM/855GM, 865G,
	915G, E7221 (i915), 915GM, 945G, 945GM, 945GME, Pineview GM,
	Pineview G, 965G, G35, 965Q, 946GZ, 965GM, 965GME/GLE, G33, Q35, Q33,
	GM45, 4 Series, G45/G43, Q45/Q43, G41, B43, HD Graphics,
	HD Graphics 2000, HD Graphics 3000, HD Graphics 2500,
	HD Graphics 4000, HD Graphics P4000, HD Graphics 4600,
	HD Graphics 5000, HD Graphics P4600/P4700, Iris(TM) Graphics 5100,
	HD Graphics 4400, HD Graphics 4200, Iris(TM) Pro Graphics 5200

Any ideas?