Video driver fails on Intel 810 card

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Tony Arnold Wrote: 
> I have a Dell Latitude C.400 laptop which has an Intel 810 grpahics card
> installed. I've upgraded  to Breezy recently and have hit a problem
> with
> the video driver.
> 
> If I switch from Gnome to console mode with control-alt-F1, and then
> try
> to go back to Gnome with Alt-F7, the machine hangs and screen goes
> blank
> and starts changing colours slowly. It's pretty, but annoying!
> 
> The only way out seems to be hit the power switch and reboot.
> 
> I've tried searching archives and the WEB for a solution, but have not
> found anything relevant yet.
> 
> So, has anyone else seen the same problem?
> 
> If so, is there a workaround or should I just submit a bug report?
> 
> If I do submit a bug, and it is recognised as such, is a fix likely to
> be made available for Breezy, or would I be waiting for Dapper? The
> policy on such fixes is not clear to me.
> 
> All help, comments and advice much appreciated.
> 
> Regards,
> Tony.
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i had tons of problems with my Intel 810 graphics card. it fixed mine
by changing the driver in my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file to "vesa". 3d
graphics is a little slow, but it was never very good with the onboard
video anyway. you can do that with 
Code:
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    sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
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and changing the driver to "vesa"or by manually editing
/etc/X11/xorg.conf file with a text editor like gedit or nano as root
find the driver section and replacing what it has there with vesa hope
this helps.


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