Screen power saving
Eric Tanguy
eric.tanguy at univ-nantes.fr
Tue Nov 29 19:20:51 UTC 2005
Le dimanche 27 novembre 2005 à 22:39 +1030, Tim a écrit :
> Tim:
> >> Are you unable to find a specific driver for your video card?
>
>
> Eric Tanguy:
> > I must say that i didn't think to that because the generic vesa driver
> > seems to work fine and i don't need good video performance. I will
> > look at that at work. If i remember well the specific driver would be
> > intel one i810 or i945 but last time i heard of these drivers it had
> > some problems, no ?
>
> For some people. I had problems with i810, but recent updates resolved
> that.
>
> > Have i just to replace driver "vesa" by driver "i945" ?
>
> Pretty much... As far as I can see, the other things around that part
> of the configuration (naming things), just appear to be for our benefit.
>
> Mine's like this:
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Videocard0"
> Driver "i810"
> VendorName "Videocard vendor"
> BoardName "Intel 810"
> EndSection
>
> Somehow, I just don't think that's the vendor's name. ;-)
>
> It didn't try and set up the appropriate drivers for you, automatically,
> during set-up?
>
> --
> Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored.
> I read messages from the public lists.
>
You are right.I tried i810 driver and now it works fine without any new
parameter in xorg.conf.
Thanks
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