Ubuntu says no to non-free video drivers for Feisty (Linux.com) [LWN.net]

Ubuntu says no to non-free video drivers for Feisty (Linux.com)

Posted Feb 14, 2007 5:46 UTC (Wed) by codergeek42 (guest, #43334)
In reply to: Ubuntu says no to non-free video drivers for Feisty (Linux.com) by jwb
Parent article: Ubuntu says no to non-free video drivers for Feisty (Linux.com)

"I certainly hope that X.org and Intel can get out a working system for the G965 in time for April. It would be really nice to have a completely open stack for modern hardware with first-class support in a major distro."

Eh? I certainly hope that you've installed any recent (<1 year old) distro, as the support is there, and works right out of the proverbial box. :P

I installed FC6 on my G965-based system and needed only to tinker with the resolution settings - the 3-D and XVideo and stuff works beautifully with no effort on my part other than clicking through the installer.

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Ubuntu says no to non-free video drivers for Feisty (Linux.com)

Posted Feb 14, 2007 6:02 UTC (Wed) by jwb (guest, #15467) [Link]

Well I have a G965 system with Ubuntu Edgy and the list of things which it is unable to do include setting the video mode, enabling either DVI port, display accelerated video, and use OpenGL without crashing. So I'm looking forward to Ubuntu Feisty.

Ubuntu says no to non-free video drivers for Feisty (Linux.com)

Posted Feb 14, 2007 9:13 UTC (Wed) by eklitzke (subscriber, #36426) [Link]

I'm not familiar with your chipset, but in my experience X is a lot better on Fedora than on Ubuntu. I have FC6 and Edgy on my laptop, and getting things like external monitors to work in Ubuntu is kind of cumbersome and involves editing the xorg.conf file. OTOH, Fedora has their X configuration set up somehow to automatically configure itself correctly. There aren't any resolutions or sync rates in the xorg.conf file whatsoever, the default is to have everything automatically detected at runtime. It may be worth finding out if your problems are due to a lack of drivers, or just the way that the folks at Ubuntu have X configured.

Ubuntu says no to non-free video drivers for Feisty (Linux.com)

Posted Feb 14, 2007 9:37 UTC (Wed) by rlamont (guest, #35601) [Link]

I am using Ubuntu Edgy (amd64) on a machine with an Intel DG965WHMKR motherboard and it does all the things you mention. DVI enabled itself as soon as I plugged the ADD2 card (a PixelView PV-CH3707(N16D)-F) into the x16 slot. The only thing that doesn't work is the Marvell PATA driver (and it still didn't work when I tried the Feisty Herd 2 install CD). It's best to stick to SATA only.

Ubuntu says no to non-free video drivers for Feisty (Linux.com)

Posted Feb 14, 2007 15:52 UTC (Wed) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link]

As has been discussed quite repeatedly here, the functionality on various G965 boxes is note created equal. There is the variance of the types of glue chips used, and whatever BIOS tweaks have been placed in the vbios image.

However, even if you _can_ get the right modes, the implementation is quite glitchy. Failures when using virtual scrolling desktops, crashes in some OpenGL usage patterns.

It's not baked. Not in x.org 7.1.x, not in mesa 6.5.2.