Thanks for your help, Liam! Liam O'Toole <liam.p.oto...@gmail.com> writes:
>> The background: this Macbook has an Intel graphics card. lspci says it >> is a "Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GM Express Integrated Graphics >> Controller." > > Is the package xserver-xorg-video-intel installed? If it is, it should > configure the resolution automatically. Yes, it is installed. >> However, I suspect that there is deeper trouble afoot than simply a >> missing resolution in my X configuration. When I start X, there is a >> brief moment of onscreen garbage (randomly colored bars, etc.) before >> the screen goes blank and stumpwm starts (in a lower resolution). This >> leads me to believe that something in the auto-detection is failing and >> X is falling back to some default settings. Unfortunately, I don't see >> anything in /var/log/Xorg.0.log that would indicate this (is there >> another log I should check?). > > Check the log for occurences of "intel". That will tell you whether the > correct driver is used. It looks to me like it is being used, but I'm not sure...what's all this about VESA? $ grep -i /var/log/Xorg.0.log (--) PCI:*(0:0:2:0) 8086:27a2:8086:7270 Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller rev 3, Mem @ 0x50380000/524288, 0x40000000/268435456, 0x50400000/262144, I/O @ 0x000020e0/8 (--) PCI: (0:0:2:1) 8086:27a6:8086:7270 Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller rev 3, Mem @ 0x50300000/524288 (==) Matched intel as autoconfigured driver 0 (II) LoadModule: "intel" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/intel_drv.so (II) Module intel: vendor="X.Org Foundation" (II) intel: Driver for Intel Integrated Graphics Chipsets: i810, (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM: Intel(r) 82945GM Chipset Family Graphics Chip Accelerated VGA BIOS (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM Vendor: Intel Corporation (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM Product: Intel(r) 82945GM Chipset Family Graphics Controller (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM: Intel(r) 82945GM Chipset Family Graphics Chip Accelerated VGA BIOS (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM Vendor: Intel Corporation (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM Product: Intel(r) 82945GM Chipset Family Graphics Controller Also, shortly after my original post, I learned about xrandr. This confirms my suspicion that the correct mode is not being detected: $ xrandr --prop xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default Screen 0: minimum 800 x 600, current 1024 x 768, maximum 1024 x 768 default connected 1024x768+0+0 0mm x 0mm 1024x768 61.0* 800x600 61.0 (Note the lack of a 1280x800 resolution.) Any ideas? Am I mistaken in believing that X is loading the correct driver? How can I clue X in to the native resolution? Thanks! Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/874o94eksj....@berkeley.edu