[Intel-gfx] Work-around wanted for laptop i3-330 1366x768 video

[Jesse Barnes]

On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:39:48 -0500
Felix Miata <mrmazda at earthlink.net> wrote:

> On 2010/02/11 09:19 (GMT-0800) Jesse Barnes (@Intel) composed:
> 
> > On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:06:57 -0800 (PST)
> 
> >> Does anyone else have any ideas?
> 
> > I hope you don't expect an old release to fully expose the features
> > of your new hardware.  Sure, the CPU is backwards compatible, and
> > many devices on your board are likely compatible with Linux drivers
> > in SLES11, but the graphics chip is very new, requiring a lot of new
> > driver code.
> 
> > So unless SuSE backports support for the new hardware you'll have
> > to use something like the VESA driver to get the basics working.
> 
> > So try creating a device section in your xorg.conf with a driver
> > param of "vesa", e.g.:
> 
> > Section "Device"
> > 	Identifier  "Card0"
> > 	Driver      "vesa"
> > EndSection
> 
> > then refer to it in your "screen" section.
> 
> It was quite clear to me in the thread starter that the generic base
> was covered. Generic works, just not at the display's native
> resolution, which the OP found unacceptable, and wanted help in
> correcting.

Ah I didn't read the whole thread.

Well that's a downside of using VESA or any other non-native driver.
It may not support all the resolutions you want.

However, there is the "i915resolution" tool you can hack up to modify
your VBIOS tables to give you a native resolution that the VESA driver
can use.  But really that's quite a contortion to say "supported",
almost as bad as running a new kernel.

-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center