Re: i810 driver and X

2005-07-14 Thread Takis Diakoumis
Hi all been fiddling a little since the original post. i did try the xorg packages suggested - unfortunately no change. i also noticed some other funnies with xorg (at least the packages i downloaded - later said to be dated and buggy). in any case, i've been scared off the xorg packages, probab

Re: i810 driver and X

2005-07-12 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 13 Jul 2005, Matej Cepl wrote: > > > Martin Theiss wrote: >> I advice you not to take my packages anymore. There are newer ones, which >> will also get into unstable. According to the latest Debian newsletter >> have a look at http://people.debian.org/~nobse/xorg-x11/ > > I have a problem with

Re: i810 driver and X

2005-07-12 Thread Matej Cepl
Martin Theiss wrote: > I advice you not to take my packages anymore. There are newer ones, which > will also get into unstable. According to the latest Debian newsletter > have a look at http://people.debian.org/~nobse/xorg-x11/ I have a problem with these p.d.o packages (see attached output fro

Re: i810 driver and X

2005-07-11 Thread Jochen Schulz
Takis Diakoumis: > > i'm experiencing a problem when switching views from laptop lcd to > external display and back or with both. Some perhaps interesting links about this issue: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=285818 http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/pipermail/linux-thinkpad/200

Re: i810 driver and X

2005-07-11 Thread Jean-Baka Domelevo
Hello ! I'm adding my name on the list of people having this switch-to-external-display inconvenience. I am running a 2.6.8 kernel on a Dell Inspiron 510m with an Intel i855GM. My i830 stuff is compiled inside the kernel. XFree86 version 4.3.0.1, X11R6.6. See you ! JB On 7/11/05, Koen Vermeer <[EM

Re: i810 driver and X

2005-07-10 Thread Koen Vermeer
Hi Martin, On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 00:21 +0200, Martin Theiss wrote: > I advice you not to take my packages anymore. There are newer ones, which > will also get into unstable. According to the latest Debian newsletter have > a look at http://people.debian.org/~nobse/xorg-x11/ Thanks for the notice!

Re: i810 driver and X

2005-07-10 Thread Martin Theiss
Hi Koen Vermeer, *, Koen Vermeer wrote: > The i810 driver in the xfree as shipping with Debian is very old. I > never got it to work really well with the external display. You may try > xorg, which has a newer i810 driver. Search around on Google, and add > these lines to sources.list: > > deb h

Re: i810 driver and X

2005-07-10 Thread MJD
I have a similar problem with my laptop running both xfree86 in Debian and xorg in Ubuntu.  It doesn't work.  With xorg, it does some weird changing (after multiple clicks, it switches off lcd, on crt, then nothing on crt without anything!  And the terminals don't like switching under Ubuntu (fine

Re: i810 driver and X

2005-07-10 Thread Koen Vermeer
The i810 driver in the xfree as shipping with Debian is very old. I never got it to work really well with the external display. You may try xorg, which has a newer i810 driver. Search around on Google, and add these lines to sources.list: deb http://neo.wh-stuttgart.de/debian/ sarge xorg deb-src h

Re: i810 driver and X

2005-07-10 Thread Jochen Schulz
Takis Diakoumis: > > when switching to external display the top of the screen is garbage and > the screen has moved down. when switching to both screens - both exhibit > the top 50 or so pixels as garbage and when switching back to laptop > screen only it stays as garbage. the only way i can retri

i810 driver and X

2005-07-10 Thread Takis Diakoumis
Hi i'm experiencing a problem when switching views from laptop lcd to external display and back or with both. i have an IBM ThinkPad R51 2887GVM running debian testing. it uses the i855GM video chip and i'm using the i810 driver in X. i have the relevant modules loaded in the kernel (custom debi