F10 and built-in Intel graphics

[psmith]

Craig White wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 22:25 +0000, psmith wrote:
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>> Craig White wrote:
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>>> On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 19:14 +0000, psmith wrote:
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>>>> Gordon Messmer wrote:
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>>>>> M A Young wrote:
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>>>>>           
>>>>>> 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
>>>>     
>>>>         
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>>> 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
>>>
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>> 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
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> would you have "NoAccel" "true" instead of "AccelMethod" "EXA" ? is that
> the idea?
>
> Craig
>
>   
yeah that's it, let me know if it works out

phil