[ltp] T61 with X3100 Video Card Problems Ubuntu

[John Jason Jordan]

On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 00:20:04 -0200
"Leonardo Monasterio" <monasterio.ufpel@gmail.com> dijo:

> Dear  All,
> 
> I am a linux newbie and I really need your help.
> 
> I have followed the Ubuntu 7.10 installation instructions. I have a
> Lenovo T61 6465 with 1 gig ram and intel x3100.
> Things went relatively smooth, but- contrary to what Thinkwiki says-
> the intel graphics card did not work out of the box. First it gave me
> just the vesa generic. Then I tried to reconfigure it using  "sudo
> dpkg-reconfigure_xserver-xorg", but the best I could do was to get as
> graphics car a  "vesa generic/ intel - experimental modesetting...".
> 
> Any suggestions? I would be very grateful because I would like to use
> the  extended screen.

I hve a T61 with nVidia graphics and I had similar problems. The
Thinkwiki needs editing, because the video does not always come up
autoconfigured, at least not on Gutsy x86_64. Having said that, back in
April I built myself a new desktop with a 20 inch Samsung LCD. Fedora 7
found the onboard video (nVidia 6150) and also found the LCD and
autoconfigured both for 1680 x1050. Ubuntu found neither and I was
staring at Vesa 1050 x 768. It took a lot of fiddling to get Ubuntu to
recognize the nVidia, and it never did see the monitor. But at least
once it found the nVidia I had the correct resolution options.

On my new T61 Gutsy did not find the nVidia and I had to
edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf manually. As I recall I used lspci at the
command line to find what Linux called the video. I copied and pasted
this into a couple places in the xorg.conf file. I also did several
other things, but I don't recall exactly what - I was referring to
online help files as I had never had to do this before. Eventually I
got it properly configured and it has been fine ever since.

I wish I could be more specific but I don't have Intel video anyway.
However, I can assure you that what you want to do is possible. It just
might take some poking around to figure out exactly how.