Intel drivers on a default Ubuntu (7.04) install?

[Chad]

On 6/30/07, Alberto Milone <albertomilone at alice.it> wrote:
> 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
>

Cool, thank you.

-Chad