Intel 965 / X3100 and Dell 1535 laptop

barfo · Apprentice Joined: 04 Mar 2006 Posts: 163

hi all.

i'm beating my head against this and am looking for any assistance...

i have a dell 1535 that i ordered with ubuntu. they apparently have never tested one of these machine as they sell them, because the intel driver does nothing but give me a corrupt, useless white screen. if i change xorg.conf to vesa i can only get 800x600.

so i'm looking for any alternative and i just tried the latest livecd. i was hoping to get back to gentoo anyway, as it's been my primary OS for years now. anyway, the livecd just gives me the same white screen. xorg.conf is automatically configured for the i810 (intel) driver - which as far as I know is correct.

does anyone know what's going on here? i just want to get X running at 1280x800. is there another driver, some kernel tweaks necessary, perhaps a modeline that will fix this?

otherwise i'm sending it back to dell and asking for my money back.

any suggestions will be greatly appreciated!

szczerb · Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 5:39 pm Post subject:

I have a Lenovo (N200) with the same chipset and xorg works fine for me. Recent versions (1.5.x) run even with no xorg.conf at all.

That's my xorg.conf (for 1.5.2 with intel driver 1.5.0 and mesa 7.2):

barfo · Apprentice Joined: 04 Mar 2006 Posts: 163

thanks... but from what i can tell, this problem is persistent only with this laptop.

i've seen loads of other laptops with this chipset in which X runs smoothly - but for some reason this dell laptop won't cooperate.

i'll probably just return the thing. i really shouldn't have to waste time with this - especially when dell should have. it's really disappointing.