Output problem with intel driver with hardware 0x8086, 0x2a02, 0x1028, 0x0209

Jesse Barnes jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org
Sat Aug 25 08:01:27 PDT 2007


On Saturday, August 25, 2007, Adam Williamson wrote:
> Hi, all. Had a report of corrupted output with the 'intel' driver
> (probably version 2.1.0, I think, as the reporter was testing with
> Mandriva Linux 2008 Beta 1, which didn't quite get 2.1.1) on this
> specific adapter. Here is the reporter's description:
>
> ---
>
> install puts vesa driver for this but i810 works just fine
> the default screen resolution is 1280x800 but to make it work the
> xorg.conf
> fail need some tweeking. Someway kde finds two screens (I gess one is
> TV) so
> to fix this I had to add these lines to xorg.conf:
>
> New section:
> Section "Monitor"
>   Identifier  "TVOutput"
>   Option      "Ignore" "true"
> EndSection
>
> and in device section:
> Option      "monitor-TV" "TVOutput"
>
> ---
>
> When pressed for more information:
>
> ---
>
> "Well it's not an error, I see two desctop layouts one is 1280x800
> but the
> kicker is aligned to 1024x768. I can move cursor beyond the
> 1024x768."
>
> ---
>
> Is this enough information? Should I ask for a screenshot and
> Xorg.0.log?

This sounds like an issue that was recently resolved in the upstream git 
tree.  Can you have your user try that?

Thanks,
Jesse



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