- Sorry for my ignorance, but what do you mean by "an upstram issue"?
- Regrading the installer:
Well, I think that it's quite an important issue. When the avarage end-user will encounter a need to reboot his computer 5 times a day, he will just say that Linux is even worse than Windows, and will get back to Microsoft ...
I think that we have to think how can we help him.
If adding this ability to the installer is problematic, there must be some other creative solution.
Maybe upon activation of his new environment, the driver will recognize that it's running on un-supported chipset, and will pop-up some window, suggesting the user to switch to 'fbdev', with explanation that ordinary people can understand (or maybe even suggest to do it automatically).
Thanks again for all the help,
Zvika
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Cyril Brulebois
<kibi@debian.org> wrote:
Hi.
katif software <katifsoft@gmail.com> (20/02/2011):
> 1. What are the disavantages of using a generic driver instead of
> this one?
You may lack features like acceleration etc. But you gain stability.
> 2. Is this problem related to using Debian, or is it for any Linux
> distro I will use?
That's an upstream issue.
> 3. Maybe the installer program should be aware of the i8xx compatibility
> problem, and not install this driver on the first place?
We made several attempts at fixing it. Introducing chipset detection
late in the release cycle could have lead to more issues.
> > How can I know for sure that I have i8xx card?
From the output of the bug script (included in your report), lspci returned:
| 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 03)
> > If I do have an i8xx card - I understood from the FAQ you linked
> > that I should change my video driver to vesa or fbdev. Which is
> > prefered? How can I make this change?
I think the FAQ tells you exactly how to do it? IIRC, vesa only does
4/3 resolutions. fbdev uses the framebuffer. I'd say fbdev (spares you
a reboot to disable KMS), and vesa if it doesn't work well.
KiBi.
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