F10 and built-in Intel graphics

[psmith]

Craig White wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 19:14 +0000, psmith wrote:
>   
>> Gordon Messmer wrote:
>>     
>>> M A Young wrote:
>>>       
>>>> I recommend that you do a text based install (add text to the boot 
>>>> line), and once you have it installed, boot to a text console (add 3 
>>>> to the boot line), then add Option "NoAccel" "true" to the Device 
>>>> section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>>>>         
>>> I'm curious whether it's necessary to disable acceleration entirely, 
>>> or simply revert to the older XAA method.  On my Thinkpad X40, the 
>>> Intel video driver in F10 had significant problems, where the driver 
>>> on F9 was fine.  I could either use XAA or revert to the older driver 
>>> to get proper rendering.
>>>
>>> I've attached a minimal xorg.conf.  I believe you can save it to 
>>> /etc/X11 to test each of the options individually.  Try disabling 
>>> accel, and then try using XAA (both options are in the file).  Let us 
>>> know what kind of results you get, and then track down one of the 
>>> bugzilla reports on this subject (I know a few are open) and add your 
>>> information.
>>>
>>>       
>> here is the pertinant section of the xorg.conf for my aspire one which 
>> has intel gfx, this is on F10 and it works perfectly
>>
>> Section "Device"
>>     Identifier  "Card0"
>>     Driver      "intel"
>>     VendorName  "Intel Corporation"
>>     BoardName   "Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller"
>>     VideoRam    229376
>>     Option        "MonitorLayout" "LVDS,VGA"
>>     Option        "Clone" "true"
>>     Option        "AccelMethod" "EXA"
>>     Option        "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"
>>     Option        "CacheLines" "1980"
>>     BusID       "PCI:0:2:0"
>> EndSection
>>     
> ----
> you haven't by any chance figured out how to get LVDS to use a larger
> virtual screen - say 1024 x 768 have you? I've been unable to do that on
> my Aspire One.
>
> Craig
>
>   
no sorry craig, i think i remember reading somewhere that the only way 
to get the "Virtual" setting to work is to pass the "NoAccel" "true" 
option but i've not tried it

phil