does i915 support have a problem with screens

Alan Hourihane alanh at fairlite.demon.co.uk
Mon Apr 4 03:12:22 PDT 2005


On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 12:08:45PM +0200, Kim Schulz wrote:
> [snip]
> > > > This is Intel's latest laptop chipset and X.Org have not yet
> > > > released a version that supports this chip. The current CVS of
> > > > X.Org does support it though. So if you can build from source
> > > > you'll get support for your chip.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Ahh that explains it. I thought that it was covered by the i915
> > > kernel module and i810 xorg module combined. 
> > 
> > It is covered by the same modules, but they've been updated to support
> > the i915GM.
> > 
> > > Is there any special parameters I need to add while compiling ?
> > 
> > Nope.
> 
> 
> so now I got it to compile (missed the libpng3-devel package) but the
> output is the same.
> 
> See my new Xorg.0.log here:
> http://www.cs.aau.dk/~kim/Xorg.0.log
> 
> Any ideas of what is wrong now? 
> 
> The xorg.conf is the same as mentioned earlier. 

You've not done a 'make install' after building the CVS as a lot of
your modules are still saying they are '6.8.2' and shouldn't if it's
the CVS - especially the i810_drv.o.

Alan.



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