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From: Willie Wong <wwong@××××××××××××××.edu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [Solved?] Re: Intel Video and i915 driver
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2010 23:03:56
Message-Id: 20100109230818.GA28680@princeton.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Intel Video and i915 driver by Willie Wong
1 On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 05:25:51PM -0500, Penguin Lover Willie Wong squawked:
2 > On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 01:25:42PM -0800, Penguin Lover walt squawked:
3 > > On 01/09/2010 10:39 AM, Willie Wong wrote:
4 > >> Hi list:
5 > >>
6 > >> I found the following problem when trying to set-up X on my Gigabyte
7 > >> Netbook, model T1028M. Firstly, about the hardware
8 > >>
9 > >> lspci shows
10 > >> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME
11 > >> Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)...
12 > >
13 > > Searching for 'intel' in the kernel menuconfig turns up 945GM, but only
14 > > in framebuffer drivers marked 'experimental'. I'm thinking the intel
15 > > driver for X doesn't support that chip yet, but I'm guessing.
16 >
17 > the 2009 Q3 release should support my card.
18 >
19 > http://intellinuxgraphics.org/documentation.html
20 >
21 > It is not that new a chip-set: having been around a couple years
22 > already I think.
23 >
24
25 Seems to be some sort of regression? I downgraded to
26 gentoo-sources-2.6.31-r9 and have no problems. But both 2.6.32 and
27 2.6.32-r1 give me the broken behaviour.
28
29 I'll mark this thread as [SOLVED] because a workaround has been found.
30
31 Cheers,
32
33 W
34 --
35 You should approach relationships like chess. And preferably as Deep Blue plays
36 it, or at least as Kasparov.
37 Sortir en Pantoufles: up 1128 days, 21:58