On Tue January 1 2008, Jan Ritzerfeld scratched these words onto a coconut shell, hoping for an answer:
(snips) > Please have a look at the actual dimensions: They hardly change! And > they do never match the resolution you have tried to set up. > For me, this looks like bug > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=257746 > > Can you check which driver you are using for your i845? Just paste > the output from "hwinfo --gfxcard" as root. Jan, here is the output you requested. The release notes seem to indicate that the intel driver is installed by default in 10.3. However, I changed nothing yet it appears that I am using the i810_smbus driver! [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> su Password: phred:/home/gil # hwinfo --gfxcard 12: PCI 02.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA) [Created at pci.301] UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_2562 Unique ID: _Znp.DBsAKLI2lO9 SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0 SysFS BusID: 0000:00:02.0 Hardware Class: graphics card Model: "Trigem i845" Vendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation" Device: pci 0x2562 "i845" SubVendor: pci 0x109f "Trigem Computer Inc." SubDevice: pci 0x3186 Revision: 0x03 Driver: "i810_smbus" Driver Modules: "i2c_i810" Memory Range: 0xf0000000-0xf7ffffff (rw,prefetchable) Memory Range: 0xe8000000-0xe807ffff (rw,non-prefetchable) IRQ: 11 (no events) I/O Ports: 0x3c0-0x3df (rw) Module Alias: "pci:v00008086d00002562sv0000109Fsd00003186bc03sc00i00" Driver Info #0: XFree86 v4 Server Module: intel Driver Info #1: XFree86 v4 Server Module: intel 3D Support: yes Extensions: dri Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Primary display adapter: #12 phred:/home/gil # > If you are using the new > intel driver, please consult the 10.3 release notes: > | [...] > | The intel driver is still not as stable as i810; use "sax2 -r -m > | 0=i810" to switch back to i810, if you encounter problems that did > | not occur previously with the i810 driver. In those cases, consider > | to open a bug report against the intel driver. > http://www.suse.com/relnotes/i386/openSUSE/10.3/RELEASE-NOTES.en.html >#13 So if I am already using the more stable i810 driver do I want to try that less stable intel driver anyway? If yes, the release notes say to enter "sax2 -r" (I assume as root) to change to the intel driver. Is there an easy way to tell if this driver has made a good change without going through a whole bunch of reconfigurations to various resolutions? If the intel driver is better should the dots per inch be closer to 80X80 at any resolution? Now, if changing to the intel driver does not help then the release notes say to enter "sax2 -r -m 0=i810" to change back to the i810 driver. I assume (??) doing this will bring me back to where I started and I should not be in any worse shape than when I began this process. Correct? Thanks! :o) Gil -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
