On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 16:17:37 +0530, Inder [GTL] wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I have tried installing Debian 3.1r2 on my laptop. The chipset installed on
> it is Intel 915GM/GMS 910GML Express Chipset Family. Initially I selected
> vga option while configuring the display device driver, which gave a very
> bloated image on the desktop. To rectify that I reinstalled debian and
> selected i810 driver, this made the desktop disappear altogether.
>
> Kindly recommend the driver that would work properly on the said chipset.
First of all, you don't need to reinstall Debian to change the setup of
the graphical desktop (the "X Window system"). You just have to become
root and run
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
This will start a series of dialogs which allow you to change the setup.
(The same dialogs that are shown during installation.) The changes will
take effect the next time you start X.
The i810 driver which is shipped with Debian 3.1r2 (also called "Sarge"
or "stable") is unfortunately too old to support i9xx graphics cards.
You can either try the "vesa" driver, which should work OK but will not
give you hardware acceleration and which will maybe have lower
resolution, or you could install a newer version of the X Window system
which is called "Xorg" instead of "XFree86". A specially "backported"
version of Xorg is available from www.backports.org. This version can be
installed on Debian Sarge following the instructions given on this
website. Xorg 6.9 comes with an i810 driver which supports your graphics
card.
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Regards,
Florian
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