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Debian Squeeze and Intel 82830 GC on Thinkpad X30



Evening all,

I've been running Testing on my Thinkpad X30 for a few years now and the
video set up has often to be tweaked - it even worked once with NO
xorg.conf which I believe is the ultimate aim for the developers of
Xorg. That is fine and why we use Testing ;)

I am now having to use a default xorg.conf using vesa but HW
acceleration is next to non existent as is to be expected I think. Flash
player runs about 2 frames a second - even small videos. It used to,
once upon a time, work fine. You can see the commented out "intel
specifics" that were once recommended that dont work with Squeeze.

With NO xorg.conf the laptop wont start : I just see a flickery cursor
in the top left. ctl-alt-f1 etc doesnt switch it back to a working
res/refresh either.

I'm looking for some advice on how I should go about configuring the
xorg.conf. The vesa one that works (slowly and tends to get corrupted after a
few hours usage) is below.

Is there some sort of utility which can create an xorg.conf for me that
works properly with the 82830?

Possibly someone out there has a working xorg.conf for this amazingly
long lived little laptop?

Thanks for your patience and any advice

(1) lspci:-

,----
| 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82830 830 Chipset Host Bridge (rev 04)
| 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82830 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller] (rev 04)
| 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82830 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller]
`----

(2) Working xorg.conf (removing it leavces machine inoperable)

,----
| Section "ServerLayout"
| 	Identifier     "X.org Configured"
| 	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
| 	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
| 	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
| EndSection
| 
| Section "Files"
| 	ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
| 	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
| 	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
| 	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
| 	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
| 	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
| 	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
| 	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
| 	FontPath     "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
| 	FontPath     "built-ins"
| EndSection
| 
| Section "Module"
| 	Load  "dri2"
| 	Load  "glx"
| 	Load  "extmod"
| 	Load  "dri"
| 	Load  "record"
| 	Load  "dbe"
| EndSection
| 
| Section "InputDevice"
| 	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
| 	Driver      "kbd"
| EndSection
| 
| Section "InputDevice"
| 	Identifier  "Mouse0"
| 	Driver      "mouse"
| 	Option	    "Protocol" "auto"
| 	Option	    "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
| 	Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
| EndSection
| 
| Section "Monitor"
| 	Identifier   "Monitor0"
| 	VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
| 	ModelName    "Monitor Model"
| EndSection
| 
| Section "Device"
|         ### Available Driver options are:-
|         ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
|         ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
|         ### [arg]: arg optional
|         #Option     "NoAccel"            	# [<bool>]
|         #Option     "SWcursor"           	# [<bool>]
|         #Option     "ColorKey"           	# <i>
|         #Option     "CacheLines"         	# <i>
|         #Option     "Dac6Bit"            	# [<bool>]
|         #Option     "DRI"                	# [<bool>]
|         #Option     "NoDDC"              	# [<bool>]
|         #Option     "ShowCache"          	# [<bool>]
|         #Option     "XvMCSurfaces"       	# <i>
|         #Option     "PageFlip"           	# [<bool>]
| 	Identifier  "Card0"
| 	Driver      "vesa"
| 	# VendorName  "Intel Corporation"
| 	# BoardName   "82830 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller]"
| 	# BusID       "PCI:0:2:0"
| EndSection
| 
| 
| Section "Screen"
| 	Identifier "Screen0"
| 	Device     "Card0"
| 	Monitor    "Monitor0"
| 	DefaultDepth	24
| 	SubSection "Display"
| 		Depth		24
| 		Modes		"1024x768"
| 	EndSubSection
| EndSection
| 
| 
| Section "DRI"
| Mode 0666
| EndSection
`----

regards

r.


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