Intel 82815 Video Display

[Harvey]

Frank McCormick wrote:
> Chris G wrote:
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>> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:57:36PM +0000, harveytaylor2008 at comcast.net wrote:
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>>> From: Frank McCormick <fmccormick at videotron.ca>
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>>>> Chris G wrote:
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>>>>> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 04:29:49PM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote:
>>>>>           
>>>>>> harveytaylor2008 at comcast.net wrote:
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>>>>>>> I am having issues with Ubuntu 8.10 and my video card. I am able to get 
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>>>> 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.
>>>>>>
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>>>>> 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 :)
>>>>
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>>>>> I think there's something decidedly lacking still in the way that the
>>>>> Intel drivers configure themselves to the screen resolution.
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>>>>>           
>>>>    Could be...but the intel driver works like a champion here.
>>>>
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>>> 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.
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>> 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.
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> part of my xorg.conf
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> Section "Device"
> 	Identifier	"Configured Video Device"
>         Driver         "intel"
>         Option          "AccelMethod"            "XAA"
> EndSection
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> On my system XAA acceleration is faster than EXA.
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I downloaded ones from intel and their intel linux site, can't seem to 
get Xorg, Intel or Intel linux site drivers to work, I even tried

gksudo displayconfig-gtk

but nothing seems to work....