[Sussex] Laptop choice

[Colin Tuckley]

Ronan Chilvers wrote:
> The only niggle I have so far is that the i810 X
> driver for the Intel i915Gm doesn't work properly - the screen blanks
> when you start X, even though things are happening (I can hear sound
> effects, etc, for example when GDM loads in Ubuntu, there's a rather
> nice drumming noise!!).  Had to fall back to using X's generic vesa
> driver which works fine, but is a little slow for graphic intensive
> stuff.

I had a similar problem with my laptop - I discovered that X had got the
screen res wrong. If I typed a <Ctrl><Keypad +> a few times it would cycle
through the configured settings. Hand editing the Xconfig file fixed it
permanently.

Colin

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