Graphics in 10.04 with and Intel Graphics Controller

check to see if it is a intel chip with lspci
i can now have video with this comand:
echo options i915 modeset=0 > /etc/modprobe.d/i915-kms.conf
then:
sudo update-initramfs -u

i dont know if it works for you but it did for me

Thanks for the response, but it didnt work. the first command said that
access was denied. Does that have anything to do with root? this is
everything i get when i run lspci :

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation System Controller Hub (SCH
Poulsbo) (rev 06)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation System Controller
Hub (SCH Poulsbo) Graphics Controller (rev 06)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation System Controller Hub (SCH
Poulsbo) HD Audio Controller (rev 06)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation System Controller Hub (SCH
Poulsbo) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 06)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation System Controller Hub (SCH
Poulsbo) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 06)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation System Controller Hub (SCH
Poulsbo) USB UHCI #1 (rev 06)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation System Controller Hub (SCH
Poulsbo) USB UHCI #2 (rev 06)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation System Controller Hub (SCH
Poulsbo) USB UHCI #3 (rev 06)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation System Controller Hub (SCH
Poulsbo) USB EHCI #1 (rev 06)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation System Controller Hub (SCH
Poulsbo) LPC Bridge (rev 06)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation System Controller Hub (SCH
Poulsbo) IDE Controller (rev 06)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02)
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev
01)

Any thoughts?

Thanks for the response, but it didnt work. the first command said that
access was denied. Does that have anything to do with root? this is
everything i get when i run lspci :

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation System Controller Hub (SCH
Poulsbo) (rev 06)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation System Controller
Hub (SCH Poulsbo) Graphics Controller (rev 06)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation System Controller Hub (SCH
Poulsbo) HD Audio Controller (rev 06)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation System Controller Hub (SCH
Poulsbo) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 06)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation System Controller Hub (SCH
Poulsbo) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 06)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation System Controller Hub (SCH
Poulsbo) USB UHCI #1 (rev 06)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation System Controller Hub (SCH
Poulsbo) USB UHCI #2 (rev 06)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation System Controller Hub (SCH
Poulsbo) USB UHCI #3 (rev 06)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation System Controller Hub (SCH
Poulsbo) USB EHCI #1 (rev 06)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation System Controller Hub (SCH
Poulsbo) LPC Bridge (rev 06)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation System Controller Hub (SCH
Poulsbo) IDE Controller (rev 06)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02)
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev
01)

Any thoughts?

On Sun, 2010-05-02 at 23:49 +0000, rictec wrote:
> Your question #109311 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/109311
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> rictec proposed the following answer:
> check to see if it is a intel chip with lspci
> i can now have video with this comand:
> echo options i915 modeset=0 > /etc/modprobe.d/i915-kms.conf
> then:
> sudo update-initramfs -u
>
> i dont know if it works for you but it did for me
>

I am experiencing a similar problem with a similar graphics chip. The bug is reported against rev 06, mine is rev 07, otherwise identical.

What I see is that it refuses to run at the proper resolution. My monitor need 1680x1050, but Xorg refuse to run any higher than 1280x1024 which causes the screen to scale up the graphics resulting in a blurry image.

The spec says this machine can do up to 1920x1200 pixels, and explicitly says Linux is supported.

This is with a newly installed Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS. Nothing else was ever installed on this machine, I'll try to downgrade to 8.04 to see if that helps (assuming I can find the iso file).

I managed to get the resolution fixed on my machine by using the 915resolution module in grub. However that only worked for X and caused the framebuffer to get messed up completely, so now I cannot see what happens during boot, but once X is up and running the resolution is fine.

Performance is still horrible, it takes about a second to redraw the screen after scrolling or moving a window. Video playback at 1FPS doesn't look too great either.

If you are looking to solve this issue I suggest you to install the extension you can see here https://www.pest-protect.co.uk/ and try it for better results.