Re: [cwelug] Graphics Card Problem

Tue, 17 May 2011 22:41:53 -0700

Good idea, Mike.  Funny, one is bound to work.  I tried more last night with other ppas (x-swat, best-intel, 2.6.36 kernel) but
no progress.  In a day or two, I think I will go ahead with an in place upgrade to 10.10.  Generally 10.04 is my baby, too (except for
Debian Lenny and a half on my main laptop for fglrx legacy reasons.)

Thanks, again.  Hope the Python programming is going well.  See you all soon.

Robert

Mike B. wrote: 
I am not sure of the cause  but I keep 9.10, 10.04, and 10.10 around
when people ask me about the operating system I'm using.
If they are at all competent, I let them boot from the 10.04 CD and
see if the wireless works.  If it doesn't I try 10.10 and finally
9.10.
Seems one of them will usually work with whatever laptop they have,
but most have a problem with one of the versions.

I downloaded 10.10 the day it came out and could not get it working at
all. Then I waited for a month or so before downloading again, and
everything worked on my laptop.  Still, these days 10.04 is my baby,
and everything else goes in a VM.



On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Robert & Janet Bennett
<[email protected]> wrote:
  
Thanks for the reply, Mike.  I kind of thought that I had already tried this
since I had tried a post Maverick kernel from a ppa and that didn't work.
However,
I happened to have a 10.10 variant live CD laying around so I booted from
it, opened a
terminal and launched glxgears.  Much to my surprise and delight, it came
right up.  For further testing,
I installed an game requiring glx / 3d and it worked fine, too.  Thanks for
the advice.

My dream fix at this point would be to only upgrade the packages from Lucid
to Maverick that I need to make it
work (linux kernel and xorg / intel.)  However, I will do a full upgrade to
Maverick if that is what it takes.

Thanks again.  See you soon.

Robert


Mike B. wrote:

Try loading a 10.10 iso and see if it supports your card..  That's
really about the only advice I have at the moment.


On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Robert & Janet Bennett
<[email protected]> wrote:


Can't make the meeting today.  Sorry.  I'll think Apple thoughts though.

One linux problem I have been attempting to solve lately is to get

3D acceleration / glx enabled on the following integrated graphics card:

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation
82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 03)

Currently it is on a 32-bit Ubuntu 10.04 install.

After extensive web searching, I have attempted several xorg.conf edits
and even a patched newer kernel from a PPA (2.6.37), and have
had no luck.  Any good advice would be appreciated (bad advice not so much.)

Thanks.


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