SOLVED: xorg, 965GM -> no devices detected

[Dave Airlie]

On 10/24/07, Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 14:45 +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> > Jens Stroebel wrote:
> > > Maybe it's time to remove the legacy link i810->intel as it does no
> > > longer work 100% correctly?
> >
> > +1 for that as I am going to have to remove it anyway so that I can
> > provide a real i810 1.7.4 package for people with older 845 chipsets
> > that do not work with the newer driver.
> >
> > Eric, David Airlie and Keith P are all aware of this issue, so not
> > trying to poke them here, just highlighting another reason to remove the
> > symlink ;)
>
> Whatever new bug is occurring that has broken use of "i810" as the
> driver name should be fixed, rather than removing the symlink. Breaking
> old multihead configs was unfortunate and massively painful; breaking
> every system with a leftover config file from pre-2.0 is not acceptable.
>

The link isn't broken, distros aren't making it, they are still
installing both drivers by default to support seemingly just that 845
chipset with LVDS that made it into the Dell laptops..

Dave.