Hi Charles; On Sun, 2009-05-03 at 15:23 -0400, Charles MacDonald wrote: > William Case wrote: > > Hi Charles: > > > > On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 23:46 -0400, Charles MacDonald wrote: > >> I have just bought a new generic computer using a Gigabyte Intel core > >> duo board. > >> > >> Gigabyte GA-G31M-S2L Motherboard > >> > > > > My motherboard is an Intel Gigabyte GA G31M-ES2L. Perhaps the 'E' > > signifies a different video card, but I don't think so. > > > > ~]$ lspci | grep nVidia > > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 9500 GT > > (rev a1) > Well William, you are a least giving me some hints.. > It does look like I have intel made intel video > > cmacd@core2blk:~$ lspci > 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express DRAM > Controller (rev 10) > 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express > Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 10) > 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High > Definition Audio Controller (rev 01) > xorg.conf is also a bit vague > Isn't it though! Giving configuration like "Configured Video Device" has a user-Get-lost M$ feel to it. That attitude is one of the main reasons I abandoned M$ for linux. > ..... > # Note that some configuration settings that could be done previously > # in this file, now are automatically configured by the server and settings > # here are ignored. > # > .... > > Section "Monitor" > Identifier "Configured Monitor" > EndSection > > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Default Screen" > Monitor "Configured Monitor" > Device "Configured Video Device" > EndSection > > Section "Device" > Identifier "Configured Video Device" > EndSection > > Section "ServerFlags" > Option "DontZap" "True" > EndSection > > I googled 'Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express' and found several bugs mentioned. I didn't take it further but you might want to look. Some of the bugs come from Ubuntu/kbuntu users. You may want to look on their mailing list as well -- Regards Bill Fedora 10, Gnome 2.24.3 Evo.2.24.5, Emacs 22.3.1