I just got a new laptop: Dell Inspiron 17 (3737) BTX Base. The graphic card is IntelĀ® HD Graphics 4400
I installed Ubuntu 13.10.
The graphics are just horrible. It looks like an old 4 bits color display or something.
I ran the system testing tool and I got the following results:
graphics/driver_version FAILED ERROR: No video driver loaded! Possibly in failsafe mode!
It looks like the video driver is not installed properly. How can I fix this?
Here is some additional info:
lspci -nn | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0a16] (rev 09)
I also tried the Intel Graphics Installer, but nothing changed. Still stuck with the same problem.
Thanks,
Best Answer
Well, my identical machine does the same (inspiron 17 3737 - processor i3-4010U with hd4400). The RGB signal is all messed up.
Weirdly enough , when I connect a display on the HDMI port, that one works fine.
If you only need 1 display, and not much graphics : boot with
NOMODESET
(procedure to do this can be found here ).Otherwise : Ubuntu 12.04, 13.04, 13.10, daily 14 do not solve the problem, with or without update, with or without the
1.0.3
or1.0.4
Intel drivers from Intel 01.org