Intel drivers on a default Ubuntu (7.04) install?

[Alberto Milone]

Chad wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm looking for a straw to grasp here.  I am (continually) interested
> in Intel as a media-base.  The fact that they have open source
> development is definitely what drives my interest.  But sometimes I
> get lost in the various chips and drivers.  So, please bare with me, I
> did search my archives before posting this message; if it's in some
> blatently obvious place, feel free to point me there :)
>
> Specifically, my question is:
> If I have an i915 chipset on a motherboard, do I use the i810 driver
> or something newer (which from what I gather is either called i915 or
> possibly just 'intel')?  And, although a direct answer would be really
> nice, how can I tell?
>
> More broadly asked:
> How do I know what driver to use with any given chipset, and is there
> a way to tell which distro uses which driver (by default)?
>
> It seems that there is conflicting info out there about what Ubuntu
> (specifically the 7.04 release) uses, some people gripe about a
> crippled i810 driver (on their i915 chipset) and others claim that if
> they install the i915resolution package it "clears up" any problems,
> but continues to use the i810 driver...
>
> Thank you!
>
> -Chad
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Put simply, there are 2 Intel drivers in Feisty:

1) "i810"
that is to say Intel's older driver which needs i915resolution to get
widescreen resolutions to work.

2) "intel"
Intel's modesettings driver, which doesn't need i915resolution (but has
other features as well). Unfortunately the package available on Feisty
is not the final release (2.0) but only an old experimental release (1.9.x).

Check the Section Device of your xorg.conf and you'll know which driver
you're using.

Regards,

Alberto