Dear Bryce, Thanks for all your help and especially for identifying the chipset + driver as the problem. The machine in question is in Italy where I go for the summer, so I can't test it until I get there (about July 1). However with the hand-made xorg.conf file supplied to me by Ubuntu, it does work (with 10.04).
At this point rather than test on natty I'd prefer to continue to work with what I've got, until I need to upgrade. At that point I think I'll just invest in a new video card, might be the easiest thing. Thanks again, Robert Littlejohn Bryce Harrington wrote: > Hi, sorry you had trouble getting Ubuntu working on your 8xx chip. I'd > like to have you re-test against natty and if it's still not working > right, please file a bug upstream at bugs.freedesktop.org against Xorg / > Intel. > > The intel driver seems to not get tested well against the 8xx chips and > we've seen lots of regressions and mis-features. Unfortunately the > driver code seems to be rather fragile as well, so we've found we cannot > effectively patch and maintain the driver at the distro level, and thus > are no longer providing development support, nor will be backporting > fixes to older Ubuntu releases. You may still be able to get some > technical support from places like http://askubuntu.com and similar to > work around problems. > > ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu) > Status: Confirmed => Invalid > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-intel in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/604491 Title: [i815] Incorrect detection of video card/monitor results in no panels _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
