Needing help with display problems

[Anne Wilson]

On Wednesday 14 April 2010 13:13:55 Martin Kho wrote:
> > 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/
> 
Yes, it's an i5 laptop.  For the first time in my life I get better-than-
average hardware, chosen because it has Intel-everything, and Intel are better 
than most at supporting Linux - and what do I get?  Graphics that can be 
beaten by my (oldest) 8 year old laptop.  I guess I'm just stuck with it, for 
now.

Thanks for trying to help.

Anne
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