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init

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Registered: 2006-04-10

Posts: 17

Getting Grapic Card to Work

Hello

First: lspci  output

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
        Subsystem: Lenovo Unknown device 201a
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 0
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
        Region 0: Memory at ee100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
        Region 1: I/O ports at 1800 [size=8]


        Region 2: Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
        Region 3: Memory at ee200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>

What I have for an Grapic Chip?

The IBM Website says

	
		

Grafiksubsystem 	
Video RAM std/max:	-- / --
Grafikchipsatz:	Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950
Graphiktype:	XGA
Video RAM-Typ:	DVMT
Max. Auflösung (m.max. Video RAM):	2048 x 1536 16777216 Farben
Max. Farben (mit max. Video RAM):	16777216
Grafikbus-Schnittstelle:	PCI Express

can I use the i810 Driver[/code]

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Getting Grapic Card to Work

Here's a shortcut - install hwd, and run hwd -x. This will autodetect your card, and generate a base xorg.conf file, which may just work, or may require some tweaking.

init

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Registered: 2006-04-10

Posts: 17

Re: Getting Grapic Card to Work

Here's a shortcut - install hwd, and run hwd -x. This will autodetect your card, and generate a base xorg.conf file, which may just work, or may require some tweaking.

hwd -x detect not the Card, hwd uses the vesa driver