[wellylug] Debian on HP Compaw d530

[Ben Hawkes]

Hey,

On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 01:17:30PM +1300, Jamie Dobbs wrote:
<snip>
> The machine has an on-board 'Intel Extreme Graphics 2' videocard which try
> as I might I cannot get to work, even with a fairly vanilla X config, and
> X -configure just crahes - anyone have any hints?

I've had a reasonable amount of success with the generic VESA video
driver (man vesa!). You may not get all the extra features of a more
specific driver, but you'll get the 'Graphics' out of your 'Extreme
Graphics 2' at least. From XF86Config-4:

Section "Device"
        Identifier      "Generic Video Card"
	Driver          "vesa"
	BusID           "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

where the numbers (1:0:0 for bus:device:function) in the BusID are from 
the corresponding output of lspci or /proc/pci. This option is actually
optional, but might pay off in an on-board chipset kind of environment.

-- 
Ben Hawkes
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