[lug] Fedora 7 w/i915GM graphics controller

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:00:42 -0600
mjhammel at graphics-muse.org ("Michael J. Hammel") wrote:

> Is anyone using the intel X.org driver with Fedora 7 or at least with
> X.org 7.3 (or is that 1.3 - when did they switch the version number
> again?).

Yeah, my laptop has an intel in it... 
> 
> The i810 driver (which Fedora still provides with F7) used to handle
> dual head on my laptop including different resolutions for each head.
> Now it just crashes.  

The i810 driver is depreciated... thats the old reverse engineered one
that existed before intel started supporting their graphics chips in
linux. 

> The new intel driver (which is listed as
> experimental but is the one chosen by the F7 install for my laptop)
> sort of supports dual head, but I can't get it working where the
> laptop is Screen 0 and the VGA output is Screen 1 (it always comes
> out the other way around) with xinerama putting my desktop on Screen
> 0 only and with different resolutions for both outputs.  What's worse
> is that the new i810 driver (in single head mode) works fine with
> MythTV's frontend but the intel driver drops frames quite heavily.
> Dual head I need for presentations at work.  MythTV I use at home
> (plug the laptop TV-out into the TV and stream the backend recordings
> over wireless to some place in the house).
> 
> I've already tried the stuff at
> http://intellinuxgraphics.org/documentation.html.  That's how I got
> partial dual head working.  And I've put in a bug report to
> Freedesktop.org for it but haven't heard anything.
> 
> It's a bummer this isn't working.  It worked fine (with a bit of
> experiementation) with Fedora Core 5 and the older i810 driver.
> Having two screens on my laptop at home was pretty productive for me.

Weird. Yeah, I have always used xrandr when wanting to enable other
outputs. It works great for adding/removing projectors or other
monitors. 

Try a stock xorg.conf, then plug in your vga and do a 'xrandr --auto'
and see if it comes up as you expect. See 'xrandr --help' for all the
vast pile of options for it. You should be able to enable/disable, set
right/left/up/down, resolutions, etc. 

kevin
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