F10 and built-in Intel graphics
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Mon Mar 16 22:42:56 UTC 2009
On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 22:25 +0000, psmith wrote:
> 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
----
would you have "NoAccel" "true" instead of "AccelMethod" "EXA" ? is that
the idea?
Craig
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