Why didn't you just let the Video Wizard choose the best driver? For Intel video it would have automatically chosen the 'intel' driver. For for any reason that failed, you could then have tried the 'i810' driver.otropogo wrote:Now for the important problem:
I'm running an Intel Motherboard. I can't find the model number right now, but it uses a 2.5Ghz Celeron cpu and has a 400Mhz FSB and embedded video (I do know it's pre-PCI-Express).
I assumed it would use an Intel video driver, so I told the xorg wizard to try i810, and it responded by removing the Intel driver. After that started a game of musical drivers.
The essential problem - the wizard doesn't know which driver to use, and when trying drivers, can't tell what either the chip or the monitor can handle (the Monitor, admittedly, is a bit difficult, being a converted Sun Microsystems 20" CRT). Puppy 4.3.1's wizard has some difficulties with this combo too, but handles them much better.
Whether using the Intel or the i810 driver, the Wary wizard presents a full complement of resolutions and colour bits, up to 1600x1200x24, and pronounces every one of them "OK for Monitor, OK for video card".
NOT!
So basically, one has to try each combination to find out what will work. The problem then is that, when one combo is aborted with CTL-ALT-BACKSPACE, the wizard removes the driver in use and replaces it with the other one, and you start all over. So you end up going back and forth between the i810 and the Intel driver (oh, there's also a mention at some point of a "newer driver", but I failed to discover how one accesses that one, much less whether it would work).
Eventually, I found a combination that worked under the i810 driver (1280x1024x24), but had to tweak the dsiplay rates downward to 64 Horizontal and 60 refresh (which seems a mite slow - at least I'm pretty sure I get faster rate reports from Puppy 4.3.1).
But the bottom line is, that after all this monkeying, I still don't know whether I'm running the best driver available under Wary. I suspect not.
If none of them work, you can fallback to the generic 'vesa' or 'Xvesa' drivers.
...pretty straight forward.
Then, if you decided that you need a more recent Intel video driver, click the 'setup' icon on the desktop and choose 'Upgrade X drivers..."
There is also an even more recent video upgrade PET that I have announced on my blog and which will be available in the next Wary.