Bug#514840: Xorg autoconfiguration fails on HP dc7900

[Sergio Gelato <Sergio.Gelato@astro.su.se>]

* Julien Cristau [2009-11-28 18:20:10 +0100]:
> reassign 514840 xserver-xorg-video-intel
> close 514840 2:2.4.0-1
> kthxbye
> 
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:44:52 +0100, Sergio Gelato wrote:
> 
> > Autoconfiguration failed for me on this hardware:
> > it picked the vesa driver, which resulted in a blank screen after an error
> > message from the monitor telling me to select 1280x1024@60 Hz. See attached
> > Xorg.log.
> > 
> Hmm.  Weird that vesa would give a black screen.  In any case support
> for this chipset was added to the intel driver upstream in 2.4.0 so I'm
> going to assume that version works, and mark the bug as fixed.

Support was also backported by you to 2:2.3.2, and yet that didn't help the
autodetection...

I've just noticed a very relevant item in the changelog for 2:2.3.2-2+lenny3 :
  * Drop G45 PCI ids from intel.ids so that vesa is autoloaded by
    default for these new boards for now.
So the auto-detection was deliberately sabotaged in that version (which
predates my bug report by several months); I wonder why? Not that I haven't
noticed problems with X on these machines, mind you: in particular a tendency
to freeze the entire system on logout; but as I said, vesa doesn't work for
me at all so it hardly seems a better choice.

> 
> Thanks for your report,
> Julien