Re: [opensuse] Display oddity when upgrading from 10.0 to 10.3
- From: jfweber@xxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2008 15:13:03 -0500
On Tue January 1 2008, Jan Ritzerfeld scratched these words onto a
coconut shell, hoping for an answer:
(snips)
Please have a look at the actual dimensions: They hardly change! And
they do never match the resolution you have tried to set up.
For me, this looks like bug
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=257746
Can you check which driver you are using for your i845? Just paste
the output from "hwinfo --gfxcard" as root.
Jan, here is the output you requested. The release notes seem to
indicate that the intel driver is installed by default in 10.3.
However, I changed nothing yet it appears that I am using the
i810_smbus driver!
gil@phred:~> su
Password:
phred:/home/gil # hwinfo --gfxcard
12: PCI 02.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA)
[Created at pci.301]
UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_2562
Unique ID: _Znp.DBsAKLI2lO9
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0
SysFS BusID: 0000:00:02.0
Hardware Class: graphics card
Model: "Trigem i845"
Vendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation"
Device: pci 0x2562 "i845"
SubVendor: pci 0x109f "Trigem Computer Inc."
SubDevice: pci 0x3186
Revision: 0x03
Driver: "i810_smbus"
Driver Modules: "i2c_i810"
Memory Range: 0xf0000000-0xf7ffffff (rw,prefetchable)
Memory Range: 0xe8000000-0xe807ffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
IRQ: 11 (no events)
I/O Ports: 0x3c0-0x3df (rw)
Module Alias: "pci:v00008086d00002562sv0000109Fsd00003186bc03sc00i00"
Driver Info #0:
XFree86 v4 Server Module: intel
Driver Info #1:
XFree86 v4 Server Module: intel
3D Support: yes
Extensions: dri
Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Primary display adapter: #12
phred:/home/gil #
If you are using the new
intel driver, please consult the 10.3 release notes:
| [...]
| The intel driver is still not as stable as i810; use "sax2 -r -m
| 0=i810" to switch back to i810, if you encounter problems that did
| not occur previously with the i810 driver. In those cases, consider
| to open a bug report against the intel driver.
http://www.suse.com/relnotes/i386/openSUSE/10.3/RELEASE-NOTES.en.html
#13
So if I am already using the more stable i810 driver do I want to try
that less stable intel driver anyway?
If yes, the release notes say to enter "sax2 -r" (I assume as root) to
change to the intel driver. Is there an easy way to tell if this driver
has made a good change without going through a whole bunch of
reconfigurations to various resolutions? If the intel driver is better
should the dots per inch be closer to 80X80 at any resolution?
Now, if changing to the intel driver does not help then the release
notes say to enter "sax2 -r -m 0=i810" to change back to the i810
driver. I assume (??) doing this will bring me back to where I started
and I should not be in any worse shape than when I began this process.
Correct?
Thanks! :o)
Gil
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