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ftornell

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[SOLVED] - Can't get the right Intel video driver to work!

Hi,
Just reinstalled my wifes Laptop. When she got to work this morning she had Windows XP, when she gets home shes gonna have Archlinux!

Anyway...
She has an old Toshiba laptop and I can't get the correct video driver so I can't fire up X.

lspci says VGA compatible controller: Intel Corportaion 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)

I have tried:
# xf86-video-i740 Intel i740 video driver
# xf86-video-i810 Intel i810/i830/i9xx video drivers (deprecated - use -intel)
# xf86-video-intel Newer Version of Intel i810/i830/i9xx video drivers
# xf86-video-intel-legacy Legacy-driver for older intel cards as 82865G (xf86-video-intel currently crashes with older cards)  <--- not available any more?
# xf86-video-vesa vesa video driver
# xf86-video-vga VGA 16 color video driver

Xorg says:
(EE) Failed to load module "intel"
(EE) Failed to load module "i810"
(EE) Failed to load module "vesa"
(EE) Failed to load module "fbdev"

I have tried to removed the drives between my tryouts by using:
# pacman -Rnsc xf86-video-<driver>

Running the newest Xorg without xorg.conf but have tried a few with xorg.conf (Xorg -configure) and even hwd -x and used both the vesa and intel output...

Any suggestions?

Last edited by ftornell (2009-05-28 21:14:48)

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karol

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Re: [SOLVED] - Can't get the right Intel video driver to work!

Intel legacy should work, but I'm no expert. How did you configure your X?
Do you have xf86-input-keyboard & xf86-input-synaptics & xf86-input-evdev installed?

ftornell

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Re: [SOLVED] - Can't get the right Intel video driver to work!

Pacman cant find legacy...

no xorg.conf

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karol

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Re: [SOLVED] - Can't get the right Intel video driver to work!

Did you update the db? Can you post what commands did you run to get the Intel legacy driver?

ftornell

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Re: [SOLVED] - Can't get the right Intel video driver to work!

pacman -Syu
pacman -S xf86-video-intel-legacy

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ftornell

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Re: [SOLVED] - Can't get the right Intel video driver to work!

Driver was there now, I did a pacman -Syu first time after intsallation...

Case closed!

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karol

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Re: [SOLVED] - Can't get the right Intel video driver to work!

Great! Have fun w/ Arch - both of you :-)