[ltp] IGMA 950 driver

[Alex Deucher]

On 4/6/06, Sarunas Burdulis <sarunas@math.dartmouth.edu> wrote:
> Alex Deucher wrote:
> > On 4/6/06, Matt Ettus <boyscout@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>Got a new X60, and FC5 insists on using the vesa driver.  I tried the
> >>i810 driver, but that doesn't work.  Which is the correct driver for
> >>the 950?  Or is it the 945?  The wiki doesn't say which driver to use,
> >>just that it works.
> >
> >
> > i810 is what you want, there is no such thing as an 950 or 945 driver.
> >  i810 supports all intel integrated graphics.  If you chip is really
> > new, the id may not be in the version of the driver that ships with
> > FC5.  you can probably force the chip id to one of the ids that is
> > contained in the driver.
> >
> I did test installs on X60s yesterday (this particular X60s has Intel
> GMA950 as part of the 945GM chipset). Ubuntu Dapper and SuSE 10.1
> installs choose to configure X.org with i810 and it "works". FC5 and
> Debian Sid choose vesa.
>
> X.org docs do not mention 945/GMA950 under i810:
> > ... ... ...
> > Supported Hardware
> > i810 supports the i810, i810-DC100, i810e, i815, 830M, 845G, 852GM, 855=
GM, 865G, 915G and 915GM chipsets.
> > ... ... ...
> (from http://ftp.x.org/pub/X11R7.0/doc/html/i810.4.html)

Checking xorg cvs, it appears the id for the i945GM chip was added
after 7.0 was released.  I suspect suse and ubuntu either ship a newer
version of the i810 driver, or they just added the i945GM id to the
7.0 i810 driver.

Alex

>
> Sarunas