As evidence in support of including a new version of this package: I just purchased a new Dell Optiplex 745. It comes with an Intel Q965 (aka GMA3000) video chipset. I use a Dell 2005FPW widescreen display which has a native resolution of 1680x1050. (The problems described below occurred on both the DVI and VGA ports.)
In the install, as widely documented, it first comes up as 1280x1024. No amount of playing with 915resolution, Modelines, etc. could get it to do any better. (I don't remember all the steps I took, but I've been using Linux as my primary desktop for over a decade, so I'm pretty familiar with XF86 and various tricks to get it working on weird/new hardware, and I followed every tip I could find that seemed relevant.) I installed the modesetting driver, which got further... now Xorg would run in 1680x1050 mode except for some reason it seemed to be doing so in a mode my display couldn't recognize. The display said "Cannot display this mode". Again, no amount of modeline tinkering would work (and, regardless, the modeline it claimed to be using in Xorg.0.log was the correct one even without my tinkering). Then I noticed Debian experimental had a version of the deb: xserver- xorg-video-intel-modesetting_1.7.2.git20070213-1_i386.deb I installed this deb, and everything immediately worked. This saved me from having to find another video card or return the computer. I don't know if it's too late in the release cycle to add a new version, but I think there are likely to be others like me who would appreciate it. -- xf86-video-intel 1.9.91 (2.0 RC1) is out, and would be nice to have as the source for the xserver-xorg-video-i810-modesetting package https://launchpad.net/bugs/90213 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
