[ug-bosug] problem with graphic card

[USM Bish]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 05:59:27PM +0530, Anil Gulecha wrote:
> On 3/13/07, Ganesh Hiregoudar <Ganesh.Hiregoudar at sun.com> wrote:
> >
> > Paulo, Nicole and Ruzbeh  are our campus ambassadors from.
> > Brazil  I think  this  is generic  graphic card  problem.
> > Could you please help them.
> >
> > <<snip>> computer science department at our university and
> > had the chance to install sun`s OS on some of the machines
> > at the labs  that the students use in  the university. The
> > gave  us 30  machines to  install one  of the  systems. We
> > spoke  to  some  of  our teachers  and  decided  that  the
> > OpenSolaris distro Nexenta was the best choice ...
[ some snipped ]
> > I'm sending  this email to  see if there's anyway  you can
> > help us. We  had a problem with the video  card driver. We
> > weren't  able to  configure the  video to  be higher  than
> > 640x480, and  all the pcs in  the lab have the  same video
> > card. I believe it's a Intel i810 video card.
> 
> This almost  certainly is  an xorg.conf  issue. I  seen this
> crop up in many installs  (Of Solaris Express, but should be
> the same on nexenta)
>
> The  workaround  I try  is  to  boot  from BeleniX  (on  the
> starter kit), and copying the /etc/x11/xorg.conf to the same
> location on  the HD  partition containing  opensolaris. This
> has worked all the times I've tried.
>
[ some snipped ]
>

Another late response, from  someone with piles of mail in the
unread boxes !

Hey Anil, I am  on Nexenta, though not on an  i810 box. I have
come across  this in the  Nexenta bug tracking  system before.
The problem is  neither in the card, nor in  xorg. The nexenta
default install does NOT have Intel i810 drivers support. They
need  to  install  "driver/xf86-video-i810" from  the  CVS  at
freedesktop.org. It may be in the gnusolaris repo by now. 

This is the X.Org driver for the Intel i8xx and i9xx family of
chipsets, (i810, i815, i830, i845, i855, i865, i915, and i945)

Point our Brazilian friends to:
http://www.gnusolaris.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/browser/gnusolaris1/xserver-xorg-driver-i810/trunk/debian/control?rev=19304

HTH

Bish