Installing Breezy on HP Pavilion zv6000 (& NTFS problems)

[William Grant]

On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 01:20 -0600, BBBB wrote:
> From: "Gian Piero Carzino"
> > (snip)
> > I mean I commented out (# on first column) the lines:
> >  Load "GLcore"
> >  Load "glx"
> >  Load "int10"
> > in the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> >
> > > Do you have your screen running at native resolution? (1280 X 800,
> right?)
> >
> > Yes
> >
> > > Do you have 3D acceleration with the fglrx driver?
> >
> > NO. I have no 3D acceleration (The package description says it provides
> > hardware OpenGL; maybe I was too conservative unloading also glx, but
> > the ATI driver continued to refuse to load, so when I found a
> > combination that worked, I stopped trying).
> >
> > > The download I tried from ATI had an Ubuntu option but I couldn't get it
> to
> > > work.
> >
> > Well, as Filipe Bonjour has suggested, it's far better to use the
> > packages from the Ubuntu repositories: they can be installed with no
> > harm with Synaptic (simply check that "restricted" is included in the
> > repository list).
> > I installed:
> > fglrx-control
> > and
> > xorg-driver-fglrx
> > then
> > sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
> > (remember to choose fglrx as driver, then select resolution 1280x800 and
> > unselect the default ones)
> > then commented out in the xorg.conf just generated the lines indicated
> above
> >
> > > I am still at a beginner level but would like to have my HP ZV6270US
> display
> > > working properly.
> 
> I managed to get the fglrx driver working with "GLcore" and "glx" loaded but
> the 3d is still jerky.
> 
> I still can not get my screen to 1280 X 800.
> I just can't figure out why it is stuck at a streched out 1024 X 768
> My xorg.conf is below. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Bradley

Your video is integrated onto the motherboard, an Intel 915, I believe.
A hack is required in order to get odd resolutions like that to be
accepted, so you need to use 915resolution
(http://www.geocities.com/stomljen/). 

I hope this works...

William.
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