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khalderon

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Registered: 2008-01-03

Posts: 70

What to do with a Mobile Intel Graphics Media Accelerator x3100

Hi!
I am going to set up X. My video card is an Intel integrated one - x3100 with 300+MB shared memory from RAM. Is there any driver for it? I'd like to have full OpenGl support.

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schivmeister

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From: Singapore

Registered: 2007-05-17

Posts: 971

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Re: What to do with a Mobile Intel Graphics Media Accelerator x3100

xf86-video-intel

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khalderon

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Registered: 2008-01-03

Posts: 70

Re: What to do with a Mobile Intel Graphics Media Accelerator x3100

I downloaded that package. I ran xorgconfig and was very frustrated. I didn't see my resolution at all - 1280x800. I didn't see my amount of memory the video card uses - ... hmm, I don't know it either.
I did a X -config to test. I got 'vga not loaded...'. I replaced 'vga' to 'xf86-video-intel' in xorg.conf. No effect. What to do then?

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Blind

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From: Desert mountain

Registered: 2005-02-06

Posts: 386

Re: What to do with a Mobile Intel Graphics Media Accelerator x3100

Umm, weelll, xorgconfig or X -config might produce something to work with, but in general you need to edit the xorg.conf file for best performance. As to your editing of 'vga' to 'xf86-video-intel': you should replace it with 'intel'. There are many, many sample xorg.conf's out there that use the intel driver, so google is your friend.
Cheers,
Blind

zenlord

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2006-05-24

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Re: What to do with a Mobile Intel Graphics Media Accelerator x3100

Umm, weelll, xorgconfig or X -config might produce something to work with, but in general you need to edit the xorg.conf file for best performance. As to your editing of 'vga' to 'xf86-video-intel': you should replace it with 'intel'. There are many, many sample xorg.conf's out there that use the intel driver, so google is your friend.
Cheers,
Blind

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You can specify the amount of videoram in xorg.conf and you need to add the 1280*800 resolution to it too. That's all I had to do to get it to work on my father's laptop.

Zl.
/EDIT: numerous wiki-entries could help you, f.e. http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Intel_GMA_950

Last edited by zenlord (2008-01-21 09:54:09)

khalderon

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Registered: 2008-01-03

Posts: 70

Re: What to do with a Mobile Intel Graphics Media Accelerator x3100

Yepp, it worked! Thanks!

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