On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 21:31 -0400, Brian Michalski wrote: [...] > So I went back into XOrg.conf to look through and try to see > if perhaps the system was misconfigured. > > This is what I saw: > ------------------------------- > Section "Device" > Identifier "Configured Video Device" > Option "UseFBDev" "true" > EndSection > > Section "Monitor" > Identifier "Configured Monitor" > EndSection > ------------------------------- > > I personally find it uneasy when all it tells me is that its > "configured" It's just an arbitrary name. > so I went through the repositories to confirm I had the > right driver packages and autoconfigs to attempt to "refresh" the conf > file so to speak. You probably don't even need this configuration file. > I installed/reinstalled the following packages: mesa-utils (7.0.3-7), > xdebconfigurator (1.35), xserver-xorg (1:7.3+20), xserver-xorg-core > (2:1.4.2-10.lenny3), xserver-xorg-video-dummy (1:0.3.0-1), > xserver-xorg-video-intel (2:2.3.2-2+lenny8) > > Then I ran 'xdebconfigurator', after it completed I got curious as to > the changes it made so I went back to XOrg.conf to see, the following > was changed: > ---------------------------- > Section "Device" > Identifier "Configured Video Device" > Driver "i810" > EndSection > > Section "Monitor" > Identifier "Configured Monitor" > EndSection > ---------------------------- > > Its evidently using the i810 Intel drivers now. The correct driver is 'intel' I don't how why you ended up with 'i810', but in any case that would be a bug in xdebconfigurator, not the kernel. Possibly 'i810' just works as an alias for 'intel'. > Though I have a 945GM > card I dont know if there is a driver for that card specifically, or if > it would make a difference. [...] If you have problems with the 945GM, open a separate bug report. This bug report concerns the 915GM chip. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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