[ltp] IGMA 950 driver

[Matt Ettus]

Can somebody with a running 950 send me their file:

/usr/share/hwdata/videoaliases/i810.xinf

so I can update mine?

Also, the output of Xorg.0.log might be helpful too.
Thanks,
Matt



On 4/6/06, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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, 8=
55GM, 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
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