Needing help with display problems

[Martin Kho]

> On Wednesday 14 April 2010 12:07:34 Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> > On Wednesday 14 April 2010 11:14:42 Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 13 April 2010 20:28:06 Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> > > > You need to find out the model of the graphics card, and use more
> > > > appropriate driver. Did you try the regular intel driver? What does
> > > > 
> > > > Xorg -configure
> > > > 
> > > > detect?
> > > 
> > > Hmm - hadn't tried that  before - I tried setting it up with
> > > system-configure- display.
> > 
> > [snip]
> > 
> > > Section "Device"
> > 
> > [snip]
> > 
> > > 	Identifier  "Card0"
> > > 	Driver      "intel"
> > 
> > This looks good. Backup the old xorg.conf (just to be sure), replace it
> > with this generated one, and restart X (or reboot). If X comes up, look
> > at the output of xrandr again. If not, look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log to
> > see what went wrong.
> > 
> > [snip]
> > 
> > > I haven't yet tried setting this as the xorg.conf, in case I need to do
> > > something else to load the Intel driver.
> > 
> > AFAIK, no, you don't need to do anything else, just replace xorg.conf and
> > restart X. Appropriate kernel modules and stuff should be loaded
> > automatically. If something goes wrong, a report should be in Xorg.0.log.
> > If there are no problems, xrandr should provide you with better
> > resolution options and choose the highest one by default.
> 
> Unfortunately, all I got was a black screen and a flashing caps lock :-(
> 
> The log file is far too big to attach here.  I've uploaded it to
> http://www.lydgate.org/images/Temp/Xorg.0.log
> 
> I'm no expert on reading these things, but it looks pretty depressing to
> me.

Hi Anne,

May be your Ironlake chip is too new. See Adam Jackson' post [1], first post 
April, 06 2010.

Martin Kho

[1] http://www.kernelplanet.org/fedora/

> 
> Anne