Re: can not select video card and set resolution with dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

[gulfstream <gulfstream.wang@gmail.com>]

I checked the Xorg.0.log again, and found xorg  identified Intel GMA 4500 as vesa by itself, so it load vesa driver. With the vesa driver, compiz could not work. After I modied xorg.conf manually to force load intel driver, compiz worked. :) Thank you!

But it looks as that the support to Intel GMA 4500 of xserver-xorg-video-intel is not fine. There are some mistakes with it. For example, the stellarium does not run, the error message as follows,


libGL error: open DRM failed (Operation not permitted)
libGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect rendering
 ------------------------------------------------------- 
[ This is Stellarium 0.10.2 - http://www.stellarium.org ] 
[ Copyright (C) 2000-2009 Fabien Chereau et al          ] 
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Writing log file to: "/home/wgl/.stellarium/log.txt" 
File search paths: 
  0 .  "/home/wgl/.stellarium" 
  1 .  "/usr/share/stellarium" 
Config file is:  "/home/wgl/.stellarium/config.ini" 
Sky language is  "C" 
Application language is  "C" 
Loading Solar System data ... 
Loaded 38 / 38 planet orbits 
Loading star data ... 
Loading "stars_0_0v0_1.cat": 0_0v0_1; 5013 
Loading "stars_1_0v0_1.cat": 1_0v0_1; 21999 
Loading "stars_2_0v0_1.cat": 2_0v0_1; 151416 
Loading "stars_3_1v0_0.cat": 3_1v0_0; 434064 
Finished loading star catalogue data, max_geodesic_level:  3 
navigation/preset_sky_time is a double - treating as jday: 2.45151e+06 
Loaded 10051 / 13226 NGC records 
Loading NGC name data ... 
Loaded 222 / 222 NGC name records successfully 
Loaded 88 / 88 constellation records successfully for culture "western" 
Loaded 85 / 85 constellation art records successfully for culture "western" 
Loaded 89 / 89 constellation names 
Loading constellation boundary data ...  
Loaded 782 constellation boundary segments 
Loading star names from "/usr/share/stellarium/skycultures/western/star_names.fab" 
Loaded 230 / 230 common star names 
Loading star names from "/usr/share/stellarium/stars/default/name.fab" 
Loaded 3215 / 4359 scientific star names 
Creating GUI ... 
Segmentation fault

2009/4/9 Frank Lin PIAT <fpiat@klabs.be>

Hi,

On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 10:11 +0800, gulfstream wrote:
> 2009/4/9 Frank Lin PIAT <fpiat@klabs.be>
>

>         On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 10:03 +0800, gulfstream wrote:
>         > My debian is testing. I found I can't use dpkg-reconfigure
>         > xserver-xorg to select the video card and set resolution
>         > yesterday. I
>         > could set keybord layout, but the interface for selecting
>         the
>         > video
>         > card and seting resolution does not be showed.
>
>         Nowadays, there is (almost) no need to specify the video
>         driver and
>         resolution in /etc/X11/xorg.conf... thanks to xorg
>         auto-configuration
>         and X-Window's randr.
>

> I want to use compiz in my x200s with debian testing. Because the
> xserver-xorg-video-intel is 2.3.2, it does not support the Intel GMA
> 4500 video card, it use vesa. When I start compiz, it does not work,
> the message as follows,

A while ago, I tested a Thinkpad T400 under Lenny, which worked quite
well. I assume the video chipset is the same.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=513080

The "known stable" and recommended video driver for the T400 is the
vesa. (Lenny-and-a-half will provide improved hardware support for
Lenny, but I guess it won't be released before the end of the year).

> Checking for Xgl: not present.
> No whitelisted driver found
> aborting and using fallback: /usr/bin/metacity

However, You might want to try enable Lenny's "intel" driver, which have
[untested] support the 4500.

That's explained in:
http://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Thinkpad/T400/lenny

>         See Gnome menu>System>Preferences>Screen Resolution.
>         Personally, I also use lxrandr on my laptop (despite the fact
>         I use gnome).

Then, this should work.

Frnaklin