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[Ken Schneider <suse-list3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

jfweber@xxxxxxxxxxxx pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
> On Tue January 1 2008, Felix Miata scratched these words onto a coconut 
> shell, hoping for an answer:
>
> (snip) 
>
> > 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.
>
> (remainder snipped)
>
> 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
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