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Bug#492913: xserver-xorg-video-intel: 855GM not recognized any more



OoO Lors de la soirée naissante  du mardi 09 septembre 2008, vers 17:58,
Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> disait :

>> I  just checked  again  and you  are right,  the  link is  here. I  have
>> switched back to  i810 in my xorg.conf  and it is not able  to detect my
>> graphic card.
>> 
> 17:11 < jcristau> hrm. so with pciaccess, Driver "i810" in xorg.conf -> fail
> 17:19 < jcristau> ajax: any idea how to fix that? problem is the server 
>                   compares the name in xorg.conf against drvp->driverName, 
>                   which is "intel"
> 17:19 < ajax> i think we still have a compat patch for that?
> 17:20 < ajax> huh, guess not.
> 17:22 < jcristau> in the non-pciaccess path, I810Probe calls 
>                   xf86MatchDevice("i810"), but that's not used anymore
> 17:25 < ajax> well the lazy way to do it is in the server
> 17:25 < ajax> add a hack to the top of InitOutput() like what InitInput() does 
>               to do s/keyboard/kbd/
> 17:25 < ajax> personally i'd just as soon do sed -i /Driver/s/i810/intel/ 
>               xorg.conf in %post though
> 17:26 < jcristau> i guess i can do something like that. thanks

> Not sure which option is best.  Opinions?

I would just ask the user to  switch to "intel". A debconf note could be
added if i810 is present in xorg.conf. Or just a NEWS entry.
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