Problem with intel driver on laptop with 945GM chipset

Maciej Łoziński maciej.lozinski at impessa.com
Thu Dec 20 02:59:12 PST 2007


Jesse Barnes wrote:
> On Wednesday, December 19, 2007 8:34 am Maciej Łoziński wrote:
>   
>> Hello all.
>>
>> I have a problem with setting up "intel" driver properly on my laptop.
>> I'm using:
>> Compaq nx7400 (EY611EA#AKD) laptop,
>> 945GM chipset,
>> GMA 950 graphics,
>> Debian testing with kernel 2.6.22,
>> xorg 7.2,
>> Xfce 4.1,
>> intel driver module version 2.2.0
>>
>> The problem is that when I enable "intel" driver instead of "vesa" which
>> was auto-detected during installation, and restart X, colors on my
>> screen start to appear very strange, while in vesa they look ok. See how
>> it looks like:
>> http://picasaweb.google.com/loziniak/BrokenColorsInX
>>     
>
> Well the version on the intel side definitely doesn't look right...
>
> What's your configuration?  Is this output on a TV?  Is the program generating 
> the test images using OpenGL to do it?
>
> Jess

I have no TV output. Pictures are taken from my laptop's LCD screen. 
They were generated from screenshots of gimp's color picker set on 
green, blue and red - not using opengl or something like this. Just 
plain jpg displayed fullscreen in gimp.



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