HP Pavilion DV6-3225dx graphics drivers

Elive System Drivers
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Installed Elive on the beast last night and everything was going fine until I tried to open OBS and encountered this error: Failed to initialize video. Your GPU may not be supported, or your graphics drivers may need to be updated.

I couldn't get info about the graphics from hp (as they no longer support the device) but lspci reveals that it is an Intel Integrated Graphics Controller, but I don't know which one. I did not chose the NVidia options when I installed Elive and am left wondering what to do.

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Are you sure it's an Nvidia graphics chip?

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~ ❯❯❯ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller (rev 06)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 05)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 05)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 05)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev 05)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 05)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev a5)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation HM55 Chipset LPC Interface Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 4 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem (rev 05)
02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N + WiMAX 6250 [Kilmer Peak] (rev 57)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 03)
7f:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers (rev 02)
7f:00.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder (rev 02)
7f:02.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0 (rev 02)
7f:02.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 1st Generation Core i3/5/7 Processor QPI Physical 0 (rev 02)
7f:02.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 1st Generation Core i3/5/7 Processor Reserved (rev 02)
7f:02.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 1st Generation Core i3/5/7 Processor Reserved (rev 02)
~ ❯❯❯

Also wondering if I should continue using the 965 shader drivers rather than the regular 965 drivers.

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That's simply a graphics controller using the main CPU ..... generally supported quite well with the i915 kernel-driver. 3D availability is done by the Intel settings, if supported....So it might be down to the OBS settings looking for a GPU that isn't there (where the question arises: is this obs-studio from the repos or is it a flatpak?)

BTW, to get an nice readable overview of your machine use "inxi- Frnz" command. It'll save a lot of searching in the sense of which hardware and/or drivers in use, divided into sensible sections. :innocent:

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~ ❯❯❯ inxi -Frnz 127
System:
Kernel: 6.1.0-0.deb11.11-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: N/A
Distro: Elive 11 3.8.35 (beta) bullseye
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook PC
v: 0588120002242B10000020100 serial:
Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 144C v: 65.35 serial:
BIOS: Hewlett-Packard v: F.23 date: 10/21/2010
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 21.4 Wh (100.0%) condition: 21.4/21.4 Wh (100.0%)
CPU:
Info: dual core model: Intel Core i3 M 350 bits: 64 type: MT MCP cache:
L2: 512 KiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 931 min/max: 933/2266 cores: 1: 931 2: 931 3: 931 4: 931
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Core Processor Integrated Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel
Device-2: Realtek 2SF022 type: USB driver: uvcvideo
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.20.11 driver: X: loaded: modesetting
unloaded: fbdev,vesa dri: i965 gpu: i915 resolution: 1366x768~60Hz
API: OpenGL v: 2.1 Mesa 20.3.5 renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics (ILK)
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 5 Series/3400 Series High Definition Audio
driver: snd_hda_intel
API: ALSA v: k6.1.0-0.deb11.11-amd64 status: kernel-api
Server-1: PulseAudio v: 14.2 status: active
Network:
Device-1: Intel Centrino Advanced-N + WiMAX 6250 [Kilmer Peak]
driver: iwlwifi
IF: wlo1 state: up mac:
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
driver: r8169
IF: enp3s0 state: down mac:
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 13.77 GiB (3.0%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Hitachi model: HTS545050B9A300 size: 465.76 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 454.84 GiB used: 13.77 GiB (3.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 2.57 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
dev: /dev/sda2
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 68.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos:
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/aaa-elive.list
1: deb http://repo.bullseye.elive.elivecd.org/ bullseye main elive efl games ports fixes drivers multimedia non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
1: deb Index of /debian bullseye main contrib non-free
2: deb Index of /debian bullseye-updates main contrib non-free
3: deb Index of /debian bullseye-backports main contrib non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/dropbox.list
1: deb [arch=i386,amd64] Index of /debian/ sid main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ggg-marillat.list
1: deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org bullseye main non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list
1: deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/opera-stable.list
1: deb Index of /opera-stable/ stable non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/skype-stable.list
1: deb [arch=amd64] Index of /deb stable main
Info:
Processes: 195 Uptime: 9h 42m Memory: 3.63 GiB used: 2.01 GiB (55.5%)
Shell: Zsh inxi: 3.3.26

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Well device1 is your (internal)GPU and device2 your camera.
Device1 runs i915 as it should.
OBS works fine with i915 ......
So just run the "autoconfiguration-wizard" (it's in "tools") to have it do it right. (where you still haven't told us what OBS version you're using or how it installed)

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Standard OBS installed with Elive

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OBS won't even open; I just receive the error message.

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Then, either use that "configuration-wizard" or else do a reconfiguration of the install with: "sudo dpkg --reconfigure obs-studio" and if that doesn't help:
a first a complete inunstall: "apr --purge obs-studio" and the re-install with "api obs-studio"

On a side-note:
Starting obs from a terminal with a simple "obs" will give a lot of info on what's going on.