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Arm@nd

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Registered: 2011-03-15

Posts: 18

what xf86-video driver should i use for intel chipset

going to try and install arch again on my toshiba satalite c650-l15 again after the last failed try,
i have intel corparation mobile 4 series chipset as a graphic card, last time i installed xf86-video-intell
and coulden't make gnome work, at first it was complaining vesa was missing so i installed it and still nothing(i did enable dbus),
this time i just wana be sure i'm installing the right things.

MilosC

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2008-06-04

Posts: 79

Re: what xf86-video driver should i use for intel chipset

Yes, that's the one. It's best to follow these instructions: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg. I also have an Intel card on my laptop, and the only thing I was missing is Vesa driver, I think. After that, I managed to bring X up.

Arm@nd

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Registered: 2011-03-15

Posts: 18

Re: what xf86-video driver should i use for intel chipset

i actually did that and installed fbdev(cause x was complaining all the time about that)
i'm in the middle of installing the system right now, hope that last time was only bad luck
and everything would work ,cause if was able to run debian on this laptop there is no reason that
i won't be able to run arch.

and another thing its a 64-bit machine, i installed arch64 on it, so theoretically it suppose to work right?

Last edited by Arm@nd (2011-05-13 22:06:07)

GogglesGuy

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From: Rocket City

Registered: 2005-03-29

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Re: what xf86-video driver should i use for intel chipset

i actually did that and installed fbdev(cause x was complaining all the time about that)
i'm in the middle of installing the system right now, hope that last time was only bad luck
and everything would work ,cause if was able to run debian on this laptop there is no reason that
i won't be able to run arch.

and another thing its a 64-bit machine, i installed arch64 on it, so theoretically it suppose to work right?

Yes

Arm@nd

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Registered: 2011-03-15

Posts: 18

Re: what xf86-video driver should i use for intel chipset

it seems its just bad luck, did the same thing i did before but now it works