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From: Willie Wong <wwong@××××××××××××××.edu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Intel Video and i915 driver
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2010 22:21:49
Message-Id: 20100109222551.GA24412@princeton.edu
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Intel Video and i915 driver by walt
1 On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 01:25:42PM -0800, Penguin Lover walt squawked:
2 > On 01/09/2010 10:39 AM, Willie Wong wrote:
3 >> Hi list:
4 >>
5 >> I found the following problem when trying to set-up X on my Gigabyte
6 >> Netbook, model T1028M. Firstly, about the hardware
7 >>
8 >> lspci shows
9 >> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME
10 >> Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)...
11 >
12 > Searching for 'intel' in the kernel menuconfig turns up 945GM, but only
13 > in framebuffer drivers marked 'experimental'. I'm thinking the intel
14 > driver for X doesn't support that chip yet, but I'm guessing.
15
16 the 2009 Q3 release should support my card.
17
18 http://intellinuxgraphics.org/documentation.html
19
20 It is not that new a chip-set: having been around a couple years
21 already I think.
22
23 Cheers,
24
25 W
26 --
27 It is said that papers in string theory are published at a rate
28 greater than the speed of light. This, however, is not problematic
29 since no information is being transmitted.
30 ~Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Hagen Michael Kleinert
31 Sortir en Pantoufles: up 1128 days, 21:09

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Re: [gentoo-user] [Solved?] Re: Intel Video and i915 driver Willie Wong <wwong@××××××××××××××.edu>