Needing help with display problems

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On Wednesday 14 April 2010 12:07:34 Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 April 2010 11:14:42 Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Tuesday 13 April 2010 20:28:06 Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> > > You need to find out the model of the graphics card, and use more
> > > appropriate driver. Did you try the regular intel driver? What does
> > > 
> > > Xorg -configure
> > > 
> > > detect?
> > 
> > Hmm - hadn't tried that  before - I tried setting it up with
> > system-configure- display.
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > Section "Device"
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > 	Identifier  "Card0"
> > 	Driver      "intel"
> 
> This looks good. Backup the old xorg.conf (just to be sure), replace it
> with this generated one, and restart X (or reboot). If X comes up, look at
> the output of xrandr again. If not, look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log to see
> what went wrong.
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > I haven't yet tried setting this as the xorg.conf, in case I need to do
> > something else to load the Intel driver.
> 
> AFAIK, no, you don't need to do anything else, just replace xorg.conf and
> restart X. Appropriate kernel modules and stuff should be loaded
> automatically. If something goes wrong, a report should be in Xorg.0.log.
> If there are no problems, xrandr should provide you with better resolution
> options and choose the highest one by default.
> 
Unfortunately, all I got was a black screen and a flashing caps lock :-(

The log file is far too big to attach here.  I've uploaded it to 
http://www.lydgate.org/images/Temp/Xorg.0.log

I'm no expert on reading these things, but it looks pretty depressing to me.

Anne
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