Re: i810 driver and X
The i810 driver in the xfree as shipping with Debian is very old. I
never got it to work really well with the external display. You may try
xorg, which has a newer i810 driver. Search around on Google, and add
these lines to sources.list:
deb http://neo.wh-stuttgart.de/debian/ sarge xorg
deb-src http://neo.wh-stuttgart.de/debian/ sarge xorg
Then you can play around with monitorlayout, different screen sections etc.
Koen
On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 00:05 +1000, Takis Diakoumis wrote:
> Hi
>
> i'm experiencing a problem when switching views from laptop lcd to
> external display and back or with both.
>
> i have an IBM ThinkPad R51 2887GVM running debian testing.
>
> it uses the i855GM video chip and i'm using the i810 driver in X.
> i have the relevant modules loaded in the kernel (custom debian kernel
> 2.6.11) - i830 and intel_agp.
>
> when switching to external display the top of the screen is garbage and
> the screen has moved down. when switching to both screens - both exhibit
> the top 50 or so pixels as garbage and when switching back to laptop
> screen only it stays as garbage. the only way i can retrieve that part
> of the screen is to restart X.
>
> i have posted a shot of both screens at:
> for the external monitor -
> http://www.executequery.org/linuxthinkpad/thinkpad-monitor.jpg
> for the laptop lcd -
> http://www.executequery.org/linuxthinkpad/thinkpad-screen.jpg
>
> interestingly, using the vesa driver in X instead of i810 does not cause
> this issue - it works as expected.
>
> has anyone else experienced this with the xfree i810 driver?
> is there a way i can fix this? a work around - other than "use the vesa
> driver" ;)
>
> any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> thanks
> Takis
>
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