Ubuntu 7.04 X11 driver for Intel 950 GMA is incorrect in

[DonLorenzo]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-i810

I installed Ubuntu 7.04 on a brand new toshiba P200-ST2071. This is one of the configure-it-yourself models. I chose a T5500 CPU, 2GB memory, 80GB disk, Intel 3945 WiFi, Bluetooth. The motherboard purports to have the Intel 950 Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) chipset.

After booting the Ubuntu 7.04 CD, I said: Install.
The installer walked me thru wiping the partition table (and Vista) then installing Ubuntu.

Remove CD, Reboot.
When it came up, the screen resolution was at 1280x768.
Toshiba says it is capable of 1440x900.
I ran the update package tool. It picked up a few replacement packages and installed same.

I read these forums at great length looking for a solution.
Everything I read was kludgy. something about the 915resolution thing.
I installed the 915resolution package, but did no manual steps toward configuration.

While messing with the package manager I notice by happenstance that two packages appeared to be very similar. One was installed, the other not.
xserver-xorg-video-i810 at service level 2.1.7.4 was installed.
xserver-xorg-viedo-intel at service level 2.1.9.94 was not.
The commentary for both packages hinted at support for the same chipsets.
I said, why not? I can rebuild it if I screw it up.
I installed the xserver-xorg-video-intel package at service level 2.1.9.94.
This caused the package manager to uninstall the other.

Reboot!
The video comes up correctly at 1440x900. It's beautiful!
The question in my mind at this point is: Did the xserver-xorg-video-intel driver make use of the 914resolution driver to achieve the correct screen resolution?
Or does the -intel driver have everything it needs to do the job?

What I suspect is that the installer chose the wrong xserver package.

[DonLorenzo (donlorenzov-deactivatedaccount)]

I forgot to mention in my report that much of the text of the report is the same as what I reported on ubuntuforums.net. Hence the language mentioning "forums".

[Carl Nobile (cnobile1)]

I'm no expert, but it seems that Ubuntu (I use kubuntu) will always install the xserver-xorg-video-i810 package by default. I have a Lenovo 3000 N100 and the 914resolution package worked with both drivers. I also upgraded to the xserver-xorg-viedo-intel package and found that direct rendering worked where it didn't with the default package, but the resolution degraded to 75x59 dots per inch. I don't remember the resolution with the default driver, but it was closer to 100x100.

I've been reading about these packages and the newer one is xserver-xorg-viedo-intel.