jfweber@gilweber.com pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
On Tue January 1 2008, Felix Miata scratched these words onto a coconut shell, hoping for an answer:
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The answer is in xorg.conf:
Section "Device" ...
Driver "intel" That's the driver used, the expected result of the instructions at the above URL you've apparently yet to finish. You have to try the i810 driver first before we can progress. None of what I wrote following that direction is relevant until such time as both intel and i810 fail, if indeed both fail.
i810_smbus is probably a sub-driver within the intel driver. There is only one "intel driver", while there are a lot of intel chipsets that single "driver" is designed to drive.
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Felix and Jan,
Well I had a disaster. :o(
I tried changing from the intel driver to the i810 by using the command as suggested (as root): "sax2 -r -m 0=i810"
A couple of lines of text appeared in the shell (console) and suddenly the screen went black. A few seconds later it started rolling upwards uncontrollably. Then the picture fell apart completely and all I had was streaks of color across the screen and intermittent scintillation.
I did not know what to do so I tried control/alt/backspace but that just got me back the same streaks of color. I powered down the pooter and powered back up but still the same problem.
At this point you probably could have used ctrl-alt-f1 to get to the console screen and used "sax2 -r -m 0=i810" again to configure YMMV. -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org