F10 and built-in Intel graphics

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Thu Mar 19 22:42:51 UTC 2009


On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 09:49 +0000, psmith wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> > 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
> >
> >   
> yeah that's it, let me know if it works out
----
nothing I have done so far has allowed me to have a virtual screen on
the LVDS larger than 1024x600 and the above didn't work.

Presently xorg.conf on my Aspire One looks like this...

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "single head configuration"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
# keyboard added by rhpxl
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
        Option      "XkbModel" "pc105+inet"
        Option      "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

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        "NoAccel" "true"
    Option        "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"
    Option        "CacheLines" "1980"
    BusID       "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Card0"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
                Modes   "1280x1024" "1024x768" "1024x600"
                Virtual 2048 2048
        EndSubSection
EndSection

and I have had various sizes in 'Virtual' from 1024 768 and 1280 1024
and have tried disabling the 'Modes' line altogether or just had it with
"1280x1024" (my 19" display) but nothing has worked. I have been mostly
testing things with just the built-in display because that is where I
want the larger virtual screen.

;-(

Craig




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