i have tried to installed debian 3.1 on my acer travelmate 2420 laptop (that have widescreen display)

my diplay card can't recognized automatically so i select i810 family.

i can't get xdispaly it stops giving error can't start ???? display.

can anyone help for this problem? what should i do? i tried gdmsetup but can't switch to display.

on kernal prompt i can work fine.

hoping for your early response.

as root type
post the output, this way we can manually select the appropriate driver for you.

I have an Acer Travelmate 2420, running X just fine under Debian Sarge. X version is 6.9.0 (from www (cant post urls) backports (dot) org) Here's my config regarding the gfx card

Section "Module"
Load "bitmap"
Load "dbe"
Load "ddc"
Load "dri"
Load "evdev"
Load "extmod"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
Load "int10"
Load "record"
Load "type1"
Load "vbe"
Load "GLcore"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graph ics Controller"
Driver "i810"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Generic Monitor"
Option "DPMS"
HorizSync 30-65
VertRefresh 50-75
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graph ics Controller"
Monitor "Generic Monitor"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

I have the same computer, but my problem was with SuSe 9.X, I solve the problem download a driver from intel. It work's fine. There are files for another distribution, check it out.

Good luck

My earlier post noted that I had the same problem with SuSE 10 and RH 8 and was searching for a solution. Thanks for the lead about downloading a driver from Intel. Looking forward to a response from chrisortiz.