Howto: Intel graphics driver 2.2.1 (Updated)

When I try that code in the terminal the list that I get doesn't contain the text that you specified, so I don't know what's going on. I even copied and pasted into a document so I could search and find the text but it's not there.

Here is the xorg.conf file:

Code:

# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display
Section "ServerFlags"
	Option "DontZap" "yes"
	Option "DontVTSwitch" "yes"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "Default Layout"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
	InputDevice    "Synaptics Mouse" "AlwaysCore"
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "kbd"
	Option	    "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option      "XkbLayout" "gb,us(euro)"
        Option      "XkbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier "Synaptics Mouse"
        Driver     "synaptics"
        Option     "Device" "/dev/psaux"
        Option     "Protocol" "auto-dev"
	Option	   "LeftEdge"  "1700"
  	Option	"RightEdge"     "5300"
  	Option	"TopEdge"       "1700"
  	Option	"BottomEdge"    "4200"
  	Option	"FingerLow"	"25"
  	Option	"FingerHigh"	"30"
  	Option	"MaxTapTime"	"180"
  	Option	"MaxTapMove"	"220"
  	Option	"VertScrollDelta" "100"
  	Option	"MinSpeed"	"0.09"
  	Option	"MaxSpeed"	"0.18"
  	Option	"AccelFactor"	"0.0015"
  	Option	"SHMConfig"	"on"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Mouse0"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option	    "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
	Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
	Option	    "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier  "Monitor0"
	Modeline  "1024x600" 48.96 1024 1064 1168 1312 600 601 604 622 -HSync +VSync
#	Option	"Above"	"Monitor1"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Videocard0"
	Driver      "intel"
#	Option      "monitor-LVDS" "Monitor0"
#	Option	    "monitor-VGA" "Monitor1"
	Option	    "Clone" "true"
	Option	"MonitorLayout"	"LVDS,VGA"
	BusID	"PCI:0:2:0"
#	Screen	0
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Videocard0"
	Monitor	    "Monitor0"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
		Modes    "1024x600" "800x600" "640x480"
         Virtual 1024 768
	EndSubSection
EndSection

 

I'm helping here based on memory alone, because I no longer use Linpus so make allowances for that.

It looks like you're being dropped to the generic VESA driver (I need to see the output of the "cat" command I gave you earlier to be sure but it sure sounds like it). Which means for one reason or another the driver didn't get installed properly.

Have you run step 2 more than once?

It's possible that my script is by now fairly outdated, and breaks at some point. I hope you've remembered to make a backup you can revert to.

If not, you'll have to try something else to get your graphics back, like a different set of instructions from somewhere else on this forum, or macles.blogspot.com. You can also use the package manager to install a slightly older version of the intel driver - lots of howtos around here for how to use this (which should fix color banding issues but won't give you the same compiz performance)

 

I'll try a few more things but I don't want to risk completly bricking it. I think I will just do a factory reset and then see how it goes from there :lol: Thanks for all the help.