From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NTiqq-0006yO-Cf for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 09 Jan 2010 21:28:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 23492E056C; Sat, 9 Jan 2010 21:26:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E39F2E056C for ; Sat, 9 Jan 2010 21:26:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 871641B4006 for ; Sat, 9 Jan 2010 21:26:43 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.03 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.03 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.431, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id p9XFkYzg6MOy for ; Sat, 9 Jan 2010 21:26:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5D961B4077 for ; Sat, 9 Jan 2010 21:26:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NTip4-00079e-G0 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 09 Jan 2010 22:26:14 +0100 Received: from adsl-69-234-202-91.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.202.91]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 09 Jan 2010 22:26:14 +0100 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-202-91.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 09 Jan 2010 22:26:14 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Intel Video and i915 driver Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2010 13:25:42 -0800 Message-ID: References: <20100109183952.GA22731@princeton.edu> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-202-91.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.3a1pre) Gecko/20100109 Thunderbird/3.2a1pre In-Reply-To: <20100109183952.GA22731@princeton.edu> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 269dc5fd-6d1a-4717-8351-321131cce519 X-Archives-Hash: 48f334b6ee64e1ef63947ccbd789f232 On 01/09/2010 10:39 AM, Willie Wong wrote: > Hi list: > > I found the following problem when trying to set-up X on my Gigabyte > Netbook, model T1028M. Firstly, about the hardware > > lspci shows > 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME > Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)... Searching for 'intel' in the kernel menuconfig turns up 945GM, but only in framebuffer drivers marked 'experimental'. I'm thinking the intel driver for X doesn't support that chip yet, but I'm guessing. You could try the vesa driver instead, just to get it working.