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Re: advices/comments on strange graphics with Intel Corp. 82815 CGC reported bug



On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 05:26:48PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Saturday 25 March 2006 12:24, Fathi BOUDRA wrote:
> > someone reported this bug :
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=302696
> 
> > i would like advices/comments from debian-x and debian-installer teams
> > about correct procedure.
> 
> I'm sorry, but such workarounds are outside the scope of the Debian
> Installer.
> 
> The selection of the graphics controller in Sarge is done using
> discover1-data, which currently has:
> 80861132        video    Server:XFree86(i810)    82815 CGC [Chipset GraphicsController]
> 
> So, it will suggest the i810 driver by default. If that should be
> changed to intel-agp, please file a bug report against discover1-data.
> However, there is little chance that this will be updated in Sarge and
> for Etch it is likely another detection method will be used.
> 
> The option to be added in the X configuration file is completely outside
> the scope of the installer and, if it can be added anywhere, that would be
> during XFree86 configuration. Again, there is no chance this would be
> changed for Sarge and as Etch will use Xorg, it you first need to be
> confirmed that this is still an issue for Etch.

FWIW, it appears this bug is not present in X.Org.  (Indeed, I never
heard anything like it with i8xx.)

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