[ubuntu-za] Screen problem with Intel MBD.

[Raoul Snyman]

Hi Ian,

On Mon, 30 May 2011 14:26:25 +0200, Ian Whitfield wrote:
> Thanks to Frans for his thoughts!! And I do think he is right. I've been

> onto the Intel WebSite but could not find any drivers for Linux.
> 
> Does anyone know if these drivers are available and from where???

Intel's drivers are open source and in the repository. That said, all the
Intel graphics cards I've had have been somewhat buggy.

I don't know if it's the hardware or the drivers, but on my work PC, X
used to crash. I could log in via SSH, and I'd see that the X server or
driver had crashed, and I couldn't restart X and had to reboot the machine.

My church's laptop that we use for data projection also has an Intel
graphics card, and that one can't have a total desktop size of more than
2048x2048. With a display of 1440 wide, I have to make the second screen
(i.e. the data projector) *above* my current screen, and I have to use
xrandr to manually make the laptop display the primary, because the Intel
driver or card automatically makes the VGA output the primary. Argh!!!

If I ever buy a laptop, I'm making darn sure the machine does NOT have an
Intel graphics card.

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