Intel 82815 Video Display

[Frank McCormick]

Chris G wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:57:36PM +0000, harveytaylor2008 at comcast.net wrote:
>> From: Frank McCormick <fmccormick at videotron.ca>
>>> Chris G wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 04:29:49PM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote:
>>>>> harveytaylor2008 at comcast.net wrote:
>>>>>> I am having issues with Ubuntu 8.10 and my video card. I am able to get 
>>> 800x600 only and I am not able to make changes to documents, etc due to the fact 
>>> of my limit screen. Can anyone help?
>>>>> Make sure X is using the intel driver...not any other one. In my
>>>>> experience with Intel 82865 on-board video. the intel driver is the only
>>>>> one that works properly. It gives me 1650x1080 on my LG Flatron monitor.
>>>>>
>>>> My experience with the Intel drivers and a motherboard with the Intel
>>>> G31 chipset is bad.  The new 'no xorg.conf' setup gets very lost on my
>>>> system and although X itself is stable when I exit (to the gdm login
>>>> screen) it sometimes crashes.  I also can't get CTRL/ALT/n to work at
>>>> all, it goes to an unusable video mode.
>>>   The 82815 is much older than the G31 express chipset.
>>>   I also don't like the self-configuring of xorg...but thems the breaks :)
>>>
>>>> I think there's something decidedly lacking still in the way that the
>>>> Intel drivers configure themselves to the screen resolution.
>>>>
>>>    Could be...but the intel driver works like a champion here.
>>>
>> Which Intel driver?? That's probably where the confusion starts. There are 2 from Intel and 2 from X server.  As far as I can tell, what I was told, is that there seems to be an issue with VESA not reading the card at all.
>>
> Well in my case it's the Intel driver you get given when you install
> Ubuntu! What else would I mean?  Apart from anything else with the
> new, nearly empty, xorg.conf file there's nowhere to *specify* an
> alternative driver.
> 

part of my xorg.conf

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Configured Video Device"
        Driver         "intel"
        Option          "AccelMethod"            "XAA"
EndSection


On my system XAA acceleration is faster than EXA.