On 2011-01-19, Richard Lawrence <richard.lawre...@berkeley.edu> wrote: > Thanks for your help, Liam! > > Liam O'Toole <liam.p.oto...@gmail.com> writes: > >>> The background: this Macbook has an Intel graphics card. lspci says it >>> is a "Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GM Express Integrated Graphics >>> Controller." >> >> Is the package xserver-xorg-video-intel installed? If it is, it should >> configure the resolution automatically. > > Yes, it is installed.
Good. > >>> However, I suspect that there is deeper trouble afoot than simply a >>> missing resolution in my X configuration. When I start X, there is a >>> brief moment of onscreen garbage (randomly colored bars, etc.) before >>> the screen goes blank and stumpwm starts (in a lower resolution). This >>> leads me to believe that something in the auto-detection is failing and >>> X is falling back to some default settings. Unfortunately, I don't see >>> anything in /var/log/Xorg.0.log that would indicate this (is there >>> another log I should check?). >> >> Check the log for occurences of "intel". That will tell you whether the >> correct driver is used. > > It looks to me like it is being used, but I'm not sure...what's all this > about VESA? > > $ grep -i /var/log/Xorg.0.log > > (--) PCI:*(0:0:2:0) 8086:27a2:8086:7270 Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, > 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller rev 3, Mem @ > 0x50380000/524288, 0x40000000/268435456, 0x50400000/262144, I/O @ 0x000020e0/8 > (--) PCI: (0:0:2:1) 8086:27a6:8086:7270 Intel Corporation Mobile > 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller rev 3, Mem @ > 0x50300000/524288 > (==) Matched intel as autoconfigured driver 0 > (II) LoadModule: "intel" > (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/intel_drv.so > (II) Module intel: vendor="X.Org Foundation" > (II) intel: Driver for Intel Integrated Graphics Chipsets: i810, > (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM: Intel(r) 82945GM Chipset Family Graphics Chip > Accelerated VGA BIOS > (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM Vendor: Intel Corporation > (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM Product: Intel(r) 82945GM Chipset Family Graphics > Controller > (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM: Intel(r) 82945GM Chipset Family Graphics Chip > Accelerated VGA BIOS > (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM Vendor: Intel Corporation > (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM Product: Intel(r) 82945GM Chipset Family Graphics > Controller Oh dear. For some reason the intel driver bombs and vesa is used by X instead. Are there any clues following the line "intel: Driver for Intel Integrated Graphics Chipsets: i810,"? [...] -- Liam O'Toole Cork, Ireland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/slrnijftq1.4ac.liam.p.otoole@dipsy.tubbynet
