Comment 3 for bug 89590

Well, I like the Ubuntu community and would like to see ubuntu more widely used. There's the stated principal that Ubuntu should "just work". Safe graphics mode doesn't cut it because of very poor response to scroll wheel.

I can get the screen to run just fine two ways:
1. Ubuntu herd 5: Ctrl-Alt-F1, killall gdm, sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg, driver i810, 65536 KB, auto detect monitor. Every time I boot CD Live. Oof.

2. Run PCLinuxOS or Simply Mepis. Much easier for more people to do. Same hardware.

Since the latter two are open source, it should be possible to code Ubuntu to do the same. I get the impression that Ubuntu's problem is determining the 65536 KB memory size. How do the other Linux distro's do it?

By the way, xresprobe i810 on Herd 5 results in:
grep /tmp/xprobe.7811/xorg.log No such file or directory

Cheers, Jerry