Lucid vs. old Intel video card

[Yorvyk]

On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 18:41:36 +0100
Niki Kovacs <contact at kikinovak.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have an old (understand: around 2002) Fujitsu Siemens laptop that's 
> been running various *nixes over the years: Slackware, FreeBSD, PC-BSD, 
> then CentOS. After having served a few years as my main workhorse, I've 
> converted it into a sandbox machine for network testing.
> 
> Curiously enough, I'm having troubles with a plain Ubuntu 10.04 install. 
> Now as I recall, there's always been more or less a problem with the 
> video card. I've been in the habit of manually configuring xorg.conf, 
> and if I remember correctly, I've always had to replace the "intel" 
> driver in xorg.conf by the deprecated "i810", otherwise X wouldn't start.
> 
> Anybody know the twist how to get this to work without having to jump 
> through burning loops ?
> 
The last time I dealt with i810 you still had to jump through hoops :/ something like this:-

Boot rescue mode and drop to a prompt.

Run 'Xorg --configure'

Ignore error messages.

Edit /root/xorg.conf.new and remove references to monitors/screens 1 & 2 if they are there. (Sometimes 3 monitors are detected for some reason.)

mv /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Reboot and cross all available appendages.

If think that's it.  You may have to add a 'Modes' line to SubSection "Display" to get the correct resolution if it's not detected.

-- 
Steve Cook (Yorvyk)

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