Re: X: set resolution in Squeeze on a Macbook

2011-01-21 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-01-21 03:37 +0100, Richard Lawrence wrote: Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de writes: On 2011-01-20 18:39 +0100, Richard Lawrence wrote: Thanks for any advice you can offer. I feel pretty clueless about X-related stuff. The Intel driver in Squeeze requires Kernel Modesetting (KMS)¹, if

Re: X: set resolution in Squeeze on a Macbook

2011-01-21 Thread Richard Lawrence
Liam O'Toole liam.p.oto...@gmail.com writes: I have the same graphics card (down to the revision number) as the OP, and find that it works in squeeze both with and without KMS. The comsole appearance and behaviour is different, of course. ¹ http://wiki.debian.org/KernelModesetting That

Re: X: set resolution in Squeeze on a Macbook

2011-01-21 Thread Richard Lawrence
Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de writes: The Intel driver in Squeeze requires Kernel Modesetting (KMS)¹, if X uses the Vesa driver instead that means KMS is not active, for whatever reason. What are the contents of /proc/fb (if any) and the output of /sbin/lsmod | grep i915 ? /proc/fb exists,

Re: X: set resolution in Squeeze on a Macbook

2011-01-21 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-01-21 17:29 +0100, Richard Lawrence wrote: So I tried booting with acpi=off, as I have seen a number of sources that say this helps X-related problems on the Macbook go away. The result was: no change in mouse; no change in the graphics resolution; but really slow keyboard

Re: X: set resolution in Squeeze on a Macbook

2011-01-21 Thread Richard Lawrence
Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de writes: There is an error message from your other post [drm:i915_handle_error] *ERROR* EIR stuck: 0x0010, masking which I think is not fatal, but you could try a newer kernel (e.g. 2.6.37 from experimental) and see if runs more stable than the Squeeze

Re: X: set resolution in Squeeze on a Macbook

2011-01-20 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2011-01-19, Richard Lawrence richard.lawre...@berkeley.edu wrote: 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.

Re: X: set resolution in Squeeze on a Macbook

2011-01-20 Thread Richard Lawrence
Hi Liam and all, $ grep -i /var/log/Xorg.0.log (Woops: for posterity's sake, that should be grep -i intel ...) (--) PCI:*(0:0:2:0) 8086:27a2:8086:7270 Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller rev 3, Mem @ 0x5038/524288,

Re: X: set resolution in Squeeze on a Macbook

2011-01-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-01-20 18:39 +0100, Richard Lawrence wrote: Thanks for any advice you can offer. I feel pretty clueless about X-related stuff. The Intel driver in Squeeze requires Kernel Modesetting (KMS)¹, if X uses the Vesa driver instead that means KMS is not active, for whatever reason. What are

Re: X: set resolution in Squeeze on a Macbook

2011-01-20 Thread steef
Richard Lawrence schreef: Hi all, I've just installed Squeeze on a Macbook (2,1) and I'm wondering how I can get X to display at the native 1280x800 resolution. I've searched the Web and Debian list archives, but nothing seems to turn up quite the information I need.

Re: X: set resolution in Squeeze on a Macbook

2011-01-20 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2011-01-20, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2011-01-20 18:39 +0100, Richard Lawrence wrote: Thanks for any advice you can offer. I feel pretty clueless about X-related stuff. The Intel driver in Squeeze requires Kernel Modesetting (KMS)¹, if X uses the Vesa driver instead that

Re: X: set resolution in Squeeze on a Macbook

2011-01-20 Thread Richard Lawrence
Hi Sven, Thanks for chiming in! Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de writes: On 2011-01-20 18:39 +0100, Richard Lawrence wrote: Thanks for any advice you can offer. I feel pretty clueless about X-related stuff. The Intel driver in Squeeze requires Kernel Modesetting (KMS)¹, if X uses the Vesa

X: set resolution in Squeeze on a Macbook

2011-01-19 Thread Richard Lawrence
Hi all, I've just installed Squeeze on a Macbook (2,1) and I'm wondering how I can get X to display at the native 1280x800 resolution. I've searched the Web and Debian list archives, but nothing seems to turn up quite the information I need. I am using stumpwm, and not a desktop environment

Re: X: set resolution in Squeeze on a Macbook

2011-01-19 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2011-01-19, Richard Lawrence richard.lawre...@berkeley.edu wrote: Hi all, I've just installed Squeeze on a Macbook (2,1) and I'm wondering how I can get X to display at the native 1280x800 resolution. I've searched the Web and Debian list archives, but nothing seems to turn up quite the

Re: X: set resolution in Squeeze on a Macbook

2011-01-19 Thread Richard Lawrence
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