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Old 02-06-2009, 11:09 AM   #1
Ordinary12
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Choppy Video display.


Hey Guys:

I have a Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS integrated video card in my Gateway laptop and the video is just terrible for some reason. When I use the scroll feature everything is choppy and slow. I looked at my xorg.config file and it all looks very generic.

# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# Note that some configuration settings that could be done previously
# in this file, now are automatically configured by the server and settings
# here are ignored.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Can someone please tell me how to verify I'm using the best video driver?

kendall@Accuser:/etc/X11$ lspci -nn | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:27a2] (rev 03)

Last edited by Ordinary12; 02-06-2009 at 11:10 AM.
 
Old 02-11-2009, 01:19 AM   #2
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The driver for the Intel 9xx is called "i810". You can try adding
Code:
Driver    "i810"
to the "Device" section of your xorg.conf.

This requires the package 'xserver-xorg-video-i810' to be installed if it's not already. You might also want to add a VideoRam line in there also so you can utilize all your VRAM (since it's shared with the system memory and defaults to a low amount -- something like 8MB)

eg. for 128MB:
Code:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver   "i810"
VideoRam  131072
EndSection
 
  


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