[EMAIL PROTECTED] pecked at the keyboard and wrote: > On Tue January 1 2008, Felix Miata scratched these words onto a coconut > shell, hoping for an answer: > > (snip) > >> The answer is in xorg.conf: >>> Section "Device" >> ... >> >>> Driver "intel" >> That's the driver used, the expected result of the instructions at >> the above URL you've apparently yet to finish. You have to try the >> i810 driver first before we can progress. None of what I wrote >> following that direction is relevant until such time as both intel >> and i810 fail, if indeed both fail. >> >> i810_smbus is probably a sub-driver within the intel driver. There is >> only one "intel driver", while there are a lot of intel chipsets that >> single "driver" is designed to drive. > > (remainder snipped) > > Felix and Jan, > > Well I had a disaster. :o( > > I tried changing from the intel driver to the i810 by using the command > as suggested (as root): "sax2 -r -m 0=i810" > > A couple of lines of text appeared in the shell (console) and suddenly > the screen went black. A few seconds later it started rolling upwards > uncontrollably. Then the picture fell apart completely and all I had > was streaks of color across the screen and intermittent scintillation. > > I did not know what to do so I tried control/alt/backspace but that just > got me back the same streaks of color. I powered down the pooter and > powered back up but still the same problem. >
At this point you probably could have used ctrl-alt-f1 to get to the console screen and used "sax2 -r -m 0=i810" again to configure YMMV. -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
