xf86-drivers-video-intel: How to use MergedFB sweetness on 965GM

[Martin Langhoff]

Just got my hands on a nice HP/Compaq 6710b that has a 965GM in it.
After seeing KeithP's "look ma, no xorg.conf!" trick even
autodetecting dual-head setups, I want to run the same.

I have a MergedFB setup on my old nvidia-based laptop - but things
seem to be different for the new Intel driver. Is there a good howto?

The key thing for me is to be able to

 - boot with or without ext monitors
 - hook up one of 3 possible ext monitors (LCD at work, LCD at home,
low-res projectors) without restarting X
 - use them in mergeFB mode or mirror mode

I am currently running feisty with:

   xserver-xorg                               7.2-0ubuntu11
   xserver-xorg-video-intel             1.9.94-1ubuntu3 (plus some patches)

and could use the latest gutsy packages (2.0.x) but just got the full
set of git checkouts for a modular build in case I need to hand-build
;-)

BTW - right now getting the 965GM going with Ubuntu Feisty isn't
trivial for 2 reasons:

 - the card isn't autodetected, and the intel driver isn't in the base
install, so
   you have to do text-mode install

 - 1.99.94 and the 2.0.x intel drivers have the blurriness problem
described here
    http://www.spinics.net/lists/xorg/msg25099.html  -- not sure if
this is fixed in git

if the 2nd issue can be addressed so that the fix is in gutsy... yay! ;-)

cheers,


martin