Screen power saving

[Eric Tanguy]

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