[Intel-gfx] problem with (unsupported?) almador i830GM

[Jin, Gordon]

Barry Scott wrote on Friday, September 19, 2008 6:15 PM:
> Jin, Gordon wrote:
>> Florian Manschwetus wrote on Thursday, September 18, 2008 10:04 PM:
>> 
>>> I'll attach all infos I have so far.
>>> 
>>> The machine is a Fujitsu Siemens Stylistic ST4110
>>> running Gentoo ~x86 (tuxonice-sources-2.6.26) + kde4.1
>>> (kde-svn-overlay) 
>>> 
>>> if you need further information please ask (randr rotation and
>>> display management would be really great, of course it is a tablet)
>>> ;) 
>>> 
>>> florian
>>> 
>> 
>> It seems your problem is X can't startup with no output detected.
>> Please file a bug according to
>> http://www.intellinuxgraphics.org/how_to_report_bug.html, so we
>> could track this issue. 
>> 
> Isn't this a solved problem?
> 
> I think the problem of starting with no output detected had been fixed
> in the Xserver
> code. I think you need 1.5. I'm not running that version yet to
> confirm it works
> but looking at the changes in the server it seems right now.
> 
> It is possible to patch the intel driver to work around the issue if
> you are stuck
> on an older Xserver.

I think you are talking about bug#14611. I don't think it's fixed.

Florian's problem is different. He has output connected, just not
detected by intel driver.

-Gordon