[Intel-gfx] [i845G] No X (no usable screens)(no modesetting driver found)

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Felix Miata at 28/02/10 22:13 did gyre and gimble:
> I just --auto-selected a cooker box running i845G onboard video that was last
> updated when 2010.0 was released. Now X cannot find usable screens or a
> kernel modesetting driver. I tried adding variously "nokms", "nomodeset",
> "kms=0" and "modeset=0" on cmdline without any apparent effect. Attached
> 2048x1536-capable Trinitron CRT display correctly provides neither EDID nor DDC.

Just to rule out the new driver that was just pushed, can you try with
the previous one:

You can grab the old package from here:
http://kenobi.mandriva.com/~colin/intel/

Just download it and run:
rpm -Uvh --old-package blah.rpm

Cheers

Col

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