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#1 2009-09-15 23:17:03

wsduvall
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Intel driver on Acer Aspire One

Recently I installed Arch on this new Acer Aspire One. I have installed Arch on several system successfully systems. I have X and GNOME installed. However I cannot get X to start using the intel driver. If I use no xorg.conf, it just loads the VESA driver. If I create an xorg.conf it fails to start X saying "No screens found". I also tried using the xorg.conf found on the Acer Aspire One Arch wiki, but I get the same error. The card I am using is the Intel 945GSE. I am using the most up to date version of Xorg and the Intel drivers. This is a fairly common laptop and I figured somebody must have gotten it to work. Any help would be appreciated.


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#2 2009-09-16 01:01:10

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Re: Intel driver on Acer Aspire One

No Xorg on my wife's new AspireOne with Intel graphics, running gnome, no probs.

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#3 2009-09-16 11:46:49

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Re: Intel driver on Acer Aspire One

use intel driver (version 2.7.1 on AUR OR 2.8.1 on extra)

and nothing xorg.conf is needed


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#4 2009-09-16 14:31:29

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Re: Intel driver on Acer Aspire One

Here's what we use for our two AOD150 netbooks (with the standard intel driver from the repos):

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier  "AA1Xorg"
    Screen      0 "AA1Screen" 0 0
    InputDevice "AA1Keyboard"       "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice "LogitechMX518"     "CorePointer"
    InputDevice "SynapticsTouchpad" "AlwaysCore"
    Option      "BlankTime"         "0"
    Option      "StandbyTime"       "0"
    Option      "SuspendTime"       "0"         # disable all other forms of power save
    Option      "OffTime"           "10"        # turn off DPMS-capable  monitor after x mins
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option  "DontZap"               "false"     # ctrl+alt+backspace to restart x (see input too)
    Option  "AIGLX"                 "false"
    Option  "AutoAddDevices"        "false"     # false to disabl hal hotplugging 
    Option  "AllowMouseOpenFail"    "true"      # load Xorg even if mouse input not found
EndSection

Section "Files"
    ModulePath  "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/artwiz-fonts"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/local"
EndSection

Section "Module"
   #Load  "ddc"
   #Load  "bitmap"
    Load  "synaptics"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "AA1Keyboard"
    Driver      "kbd"
    Option      "CoreKeyboard"
    Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option      "XkbLayout" "us"
    Option      "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" # yes, we really want ctrl+alt+backspace to restart X
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "LogitechMX518"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option          "Device"            "/dev/input/mice"
    Option      "Protocol"          "ExplorerPS/2"      # options: ExplorerPS/2, IMPS/2, auto, USB (Exp. req'd for side-buttons)
    Option          "ZAxisMapping"      "4 5"
    Option          "Buttons"           "5"
    Option      "ButtonMapping"     "1 2 3 8 9"
    Option      "Emulate3Buttons"   "no"

EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "SynapticsTouchpad"
    Driver      "synaptics"
   #Option      "Device"            "/dev/input/mice"
    Option      "Device"            "/dev/psaux"
    Option      "Protocol"          "auto-dev"
    Option      "ZAxisMapping"      "4 5 6 7"
    Option      "SHMConfig"         "true"  # configurable at runtime? security risk if on
    Option      "LeftEdge"          "1700"  # x coord left
    Option      "RightEdge"         "5300"  # x coord right
    Option      "TopEdge"           "1700"  # y coord top
    Option      "BottomEdge"        "4200"  # y coord bottom
    Option      "FingerLow"         "25"    # pressure below this level triggers release
    Option      "FingerHigh"        "30"    # pressure above this level triggers touch
    Option      "TapButton1"        "1"     # mouse button reported on a non-corner one-finger tap
    Option      "TapButton2"        "2"     # mouse button reported on a non-corner two-finger tap
    Option      "FastTaps"          "true"  # make single-taps faster, and double-taps slower
    Option      "MaxTapTime"        "180"   # max time in ms for detecting tap
    Option      "MaxTapMove"        "220"
    Option      "VertEdgeScroll"    "true"  # enable vertical scroll zone
    Option      "HorizEdgeScroll"   "true"  # enable horizontal scroll zone
    Option      "CornerCoasting"    "true"  # enable continuous scroll with finger in corner
    Option      "CoastingSpeed"     "0.30"  # corner coasting speed
    Option      "VertScrollDelta"   "100"   # edge-to-edge scroll distance of the vertical scroll
    Option      "HorizScrollDelta"  "100"   # edge-to-edge scroll distance of the horizontal scroll
    Option      "MinSpeed"          "0.09"  # speed factor for low pointer movement
    Option      "MaxSpeed"          "0.18"  # maximum speed factor for fast pointer movement
    Option      "AccelFactor"       "0.0015"    # acceleration factor for normal pointer movements
    Option      "VertTwoFingerScroll"   "true"  # vertical scroll anywhere with two fingers
    Option      "HorizTwoFingerScroll"  "true"  # horizontal scroll anywhere with two fingers
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier  "AA1Monitor"
    VendorName  "Acer"
    Option      "DPMS" "true"
    HorizSync   28-96
    VertRefresh 50-75
   #Modeline    "1024x600" 50.40 1024 1048 1184 1344 600 600 619 625
   #DisplaySize 346 203 # 075 dpi @ 1024x600
   #DisplaySize 261 152 # 100 dpi @ 1024x600
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Intel945"
    Driver      "intel"
    BusID       "PCI:0:2:0"
   #Option      "AccelMethod"   "UXA"           # enables newer EXA based 2D acceleration -- Intel/Xorg says not used
   #Option      "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"   # alternate pixmap migration for EXA -- Intel/Xorg says not used
   #Option      "CacheLines"    "1980"          # change amount of memory for 2D accel and video when xaa enabled -- Intel/Xorg says not used
    Option      "Tiling"        "false"         # controls whether buffers are allocated in tiled mode
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "AA1Screen"
    Device     "Intel945"
    Monitor    "AA1Monitor"
   #DefaultColorDepth 24
   #DefaultDepth 24
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth 24
        #Modes "1024x600" "800x600" "640x480"
        Modes "1280x1024" "1280x600" "1024x768" "1024x600" "800x600" "640x480"
        #Virtual 2304 1024
        Virtual 2048 2048
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Last edited by thayer (2009-09-16 14:32:38)


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#5 2009-09-28 04:06:39

mulenmar
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Re: Intel driver on Acer Aspire One

Having the same problem -- doesn't matter what is put in xorg.conf, the Intel Xorg driver simply will not detect the graphics adapter. The VESA driver works, for 1024x768 anyway, but it's SLOW and does not detect the native resolution of 1366x768.

Those who have no problems, are you sure you're using the very, very latest version of the driver? Perhaps there's been a regression? I just installed everything directly from the repositories, so I know I'm using the latest....

EDIT:  I'm using the A0751h model, which has the Poulsbo graphics chipset. Looks like the only drivers that work with it are closed-source, straight from Intel. mad Looks like I'm stuck recompiling the VESA driver for the Atom processor -- not that it'll help much.

Last edited by mulenmar (2009-09-28 04:43:49)

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#6 2009-09-28 05:58:35

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Re: Intel driver on Acer Aspire One

I installed with the latest intel xf86-video-intel on my wife's Apire One with no xorg.conf. I've got 2 separate arch installs on my POS compac laptop with the same driver and no xorg.conf, compiz works fine, no problems on either box.

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#7 2009-09-28 16:16:48

mulenmar
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Re: Intel driver on Acer Aspire One

qb1base wrote:

I installed with the latest intel xf86-video-intel on my wife's Apire One with no xorg.conf. I've got 2 separate arch installs on my POS compac laptop with the same driver and no xorg.conf, compiz works fine, no problems on either box.

Is your Aspire One the 751h model, and are you SURE Xorg is using the intel driver? Xorg-server pulls in xf86-video-vesa by default...

I'm pretty sure that the 751h model, with the ~11 inch screen, is one of the few models with the Poulsbo chipset. http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=78719 is a thread discussing Ixar's Poulsbo driver, but like the last person to post in that thread I get impossible-to-solve circular dependencies atm.

Oddly enough, the fbdev driver works many times better/faster than the vesa driver does...still no 1366x768, but it's much faster on 2d redraws. smile

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#8 2009-09-29 04:33:52

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Re: Intel driver on Acer Aspire One

Possibly related, helpful threads involving this thrice-cursed-on-the-software-side graphics chipset:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=78284
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=71589

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