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

[Barry Zuckerman]

Hi All, 

Thanks Jesse for these suggestions.  I will be happy until the next
full release of SuSE (or possibly OpenSuSE) with this approach.  Lower
performance, but full-screen resolution, albeit a modest 1366x768, will be
sufficient and really appreciated.

And thanks to the entire participating list!

Best,

Barry.


On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, Jesse Barnes wrote:

> 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
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