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@@ -7,14 +7,12 @@
!!Graphics
The graphics controller uses an Intel 915GM chipset, which is supposedly supported by [XOrg]'s i810 driver. However, it doesn't seem to be properly supported by the version of Xorg in Hoary, and graphics didn't work out of the box. (!!) GDM starts and runs but nothing is displayed on the [LCD].
-http://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/xorg/2005-June/008272.html suggests it all works with newer versions of various packages, so hopefully it will just work in the next release of
Ubuntu (
5.10 "Breezy", due in Oct 2005
).
-
-For now
, use the "vesa" graphics driver. Otherwise
, if you really want to use the i810 driver, you can download a newer snapshot of the driver from http://dri.freedesktop.org/snapshots/. I used the
+If you use
Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary
), either
use the "vesa" graphics driver, or
if you really want to use the i810 driver, you can download a newer snapshot of the driver from http://dri.freedesktop.org/snapshots/. I used the
"i915-20050718-linux.i386" which at least got X working with the i810 driver. You'll also need the "common-20050718-linux.i386" to get newer versions of Xorg's libdrm.a and GL modules. (If you install the driver but don't install the "common" package, you'll get an error in your Xorg.0.log file like "libdri version is 4.1.0 but version 5.0.x is needed").
-But at least it looks like this will all work out of the box in
Ubuntu 5.10 aka "Breezy Badger".
+Ubuntu 5.10 aka "Breezy Badger" has these newer versions and you don't need to do anything
.
(The difficulty in supporting this chip is described in an [xorg thread|http://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/xorg/2005-March/007151.html].)
The graphics card lets you use "Xinerama" (dual head) mode so you can have an extra wide desktop that stretches over two monitors.
@@ -34,15 +32,13 @@
With the default xorg.conf(5x) that Ubuntu (5.04 Hoary) generated, the
touchpad generates a middle-click when you tap it, which is very annoying.
Changing the <tt>/etc/X11/xorg.conf</tt> file to have
<verbatim>
- # don't do anything for 1-finger taps
-
Option "TapButton1
" "" # 0 = no action
+ Option "TapButton2
" "" # 0 = no action
</verbatim>
-in the synaptics touchpad ~InputDevice section made no difference either.
-However
, disabling the synaptics driver completely (by commenting out
-or removing the
"~InputDevice Touchpad
" line from the ~ServerLayout section
-meant that it was just seen as a normal mouse (using the already existing
"Configure Mouse
" ~InputDevice)
. This has the disadvantage that the vertical scrolling function of the touchpad no longer works, but that is an acceptable tradeoff to not have middle-clicks generated everywhere :)
+in the synaptics touchpad ~InputDevice section fixed this
, although
+I'm not sure why it needed
"TapButton2
" and not
"TapButton1
".
+
You can still get a middleclick (mouse button2) by pressing buttons 1 and 3 simultaneously -- this assumes you have the Emulate3Buttons option for the default mouse ~InputDevice.
!! 6-in-1 Card Reader
