[Intel-gfx] 2.6.33: no driver gives any usable reaction

[Andrew Lutomirski]

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Holger Schurig <holgerschurig at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi !
>
> I now have a graphics card that used to work, but that doesn't
> work anymore with framebuffer nor xserver-xorg-video-intel :-/
>
>
> Here are the details:
>
> Embedded device with an intel graphics chip and fixed-attached
> LCD display with 800x600 pixel. "lspci" tells me this:
>
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device [8086:3582] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
>        Subsystem: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device [8086:3582]

[...]

>
>
>
> So, *which* driver should be responsible, and how could I help
> making that driver working?  Would an Xorg.log.0 file from the
> old i810-X11-driver be helpful in any way?
>

i915.  Don't load any of the others, and make sure that
CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y or you'll have serious problems with the
console once you're running a framebuffer driver (e.g. i915 in KMS
mode).  In general, in a modern kernel with modern userspace, you
shouldn't even bother building anything other than i915 and its
dependencies.

I have no idea what happens if you load, say, i830 (which seems to
detect your hardware) and then i915, but it can't be good.

--Andy

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