Intel 82815 Video Display

[Frank McCormick]

Harvey wrote:
> Frank McCormick wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>   
> 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....
> 
> 
  The Intel driver I am using came with the xorg installation. It's in
/usr/lib/xorg/modules.

Try: aptitude install xserver-xorg-video-intel.

This is from the descriptions:

This package provides the driver for the Intel i8xx and i9xx family
of chipsets, including i810, i815, i830, i845, i855, i865, i915, i945
and i965 series chips.

This package also provides an XvMC (XVideo Motion Compensation) driver
for i810 and i815 chipsets.

More information about X.Org can be found at:
<URL:http://www.X.org>
<URL:http://xorg.freedesktop.org>
<URL:http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg>

This package is built from the X.org xf86-video-intel driver module.





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