Re: Xen, Etch and 915resolution

[Daniel Ngu <daniel.dy.ngu@gmail.com>]

On 2008-06-24, Steve Kemp <skx@debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue Jun 24, 2008 at 09:50:50 +0200, Daniel Ngu wrote:
>
>> Just curious if anyone managed to get Xen working on Etch that also uses
>> 915resolution. I'm assuming it has something to do with 915resolution.
>
>   I did, on some random Dell notebook.
>
>   From memory I used the non-free nv driver under Etch to get a non-xen
>  display with the 915resolution helper.  Under Xen I had to use the
>  free driver, and that worked, albeit not as well.

Thanks Steve for the response.

I have Intel 865G (82865G Integrated Graphics Controller) and a
1440x900 resolution monitor.

I just used the driver came with Etch.

Did Xorg start okay booting into Xen kernel or were they setting
tweaks to get it working.

Thanks.

Regards,

Daniel