Tracked this down. Timo: yes, "vesa" was being used because autodetection was failing. Autodetection was failing because "discover1" (which does the actual PCI-ID matching) was not installed.
This is strange given that: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/src/tree/ubuntu.feisty$ grep -r discover1 . ./ship: * discover1 ./live: * discover1 # for X autoconfiguration so this should be installed by default. ** Summary changed: - [Feisty] [regression] No XV or GLX with i810 on i915GM + discover1 did not get installed for xserver-xorg autodetection -- discover1 did not get installed for xserver-xorg autodetection https://launchpad.net/bugs/98648 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
