Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu with i810 video - widescreen, new kernel... uh-oh

["Brent Saner" <brent.saner@gmail.com>]

the dell wouldn't happen to be an inspiron 1300/B130, would it?

if not, post "lspci -v" output for me as well as "lsmod"


and have you heard if the 915resolution driver? there've been cases where the 915 driver works better than the i810 (and of course, plenty of cases where the 915 doesn't work at all...)

On 10/5/07, jeff <jeffv@op.net> wrote:

I have a vague recollection of the i810 problem when I first put Ubuntu
on a Dell.  It took some research to locate the fix.  It was a tiny
program that did something to `convince' the BIOS that the video card
was not some generic unit with no memory.  The next Ubuntu found it by
itself.


>> You've got me there.  I don't like widescreen monitors and got this one
>> sort of by accident.

It ain't just you.
I have an old HP laptop with a Celery chip.  It just got replaced by a
Dell widescreen 15.4".  The first thing I noticed was the screen was
ridiculously smaller and wider.  It actually looked a lot smaller,
regardless of the width.  It continues to frustrate me, moreso when I
occasionally pick up the HP laptop.  The Dell also doesn't seem to go
past 1280 by whatever and I like it pretty high.



Lastly, it's been a rough week at work.  It was actually uniform in its
awfulness, in that *everything* failed.  So what greets me at home but a
laptop that boots up and no longer has a wireless card.  When I say no
longer has, I mean that Ubuntu 7.10 with today's updates DOES NOT
RECOGNIZE the internal wireless that it picked up flawlessly when I
installed it.  I pulled up the hardware app and there's no bleedin' sign
of the card.

Impressed as hell, I sprung immediately to inaction and stared at the
thing for a while, with absolutely no idea what to do.  Being used to
Windows, I tried rebooting (to no avail).  The remedy presented itself
via the boot selector, where I suggested it boot into the previous
kernel.  Lo and bloody well behold, it remembered there was a wireless
card there.


I have the only laptop with Alzheimers.

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