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From: Pasi Oja-Nisula on 21 Mar 2010 08:00
I just retired my 9 year old machine to home use and got a Gigabyte H55-UD3H
motherboard with Intel Core i5 processor. Well, the first impressions
are that maybe I should have done a bit more research since there
are Realtek net and audio chips that might have some issues. Anyway,
I have a 3com card for net and don't necessarily need audio at all.
The biggest concern now is with graphics in Xorg.

I'm using Debian Lenny and obviously the integrated graphics are not supported
there yet. But this is strictly a business machine (browser and a bunch
of xterms mainly), so I think I would manage a while with even vesa driver.
And I even got the vesa driver to work with 1280x1024 which fits my monitor,
so this would be a fine solution for short term. Unfortunately the screen
looks like this:

7 1 2 3 4 5 6
7 1 2 3 4 5 6
7 1 2 3 4 5 6
7 1 2 3 4 5 6

So the right side of the picture is shown at the left. I just don't know
how I could adjust this. I'm using a vga cable btw, maybe dvi cable would help?

Anyone have any experience with the graphics in new Intel processors?
Should I just leave this alone and get a low end ATI card (suggestions
for something that would work out of the box)?

Pasi


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From: Pasi Oja-Nisula on 21 Mar 2010 10:20
On 2010-03-21, Pasi Oja-Nisula <pon(a)iki.fi> wrote:
> So the right side of the picture is shown at the left. I just don't
> know how I could adjust this. I'm using a vga cable btw, maybe dvi
> cable would help?

Replying to myself here. Yes, it helps. I searched the closets at the
office and found a dvi cable. Change the cable, reboot and vesa
works fine with 1280x1024 resolution. So with this, I'll manage for
now. Hopefully the integrated graphics will eventually work with Intel
xorg driver.

Pasi


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From: Camaleón on 21 Mar 2010 11:20
On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:50:58 +0000, Pasi Oja-Nisula wrote:

> Replying to myself here. Yes, it helps. I searched the closets at the
> office and found a dvi cable. Change the cable, reboot and vesa works
> fine with 1280x1024 resolution. So with this, I'll manage for now.
> Hopefully the integrated graphics will eventually work with Intel xorg
> driver.

I think you will need the latest Intel Xorg drivers (2.10) and a recent
kernel (> 2.6.30). You could test it with any LiveCD matching these two
requirements.

Greetings,

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From: Frank Miles on 22 Mar 2010 12:20
Hi Pasi:

I have the same MB and processor. I have had a few issues, particularly
with the RealTek chip, but as of now it's running fine - running the Debian/testing
(squeeze) with the 2.26.32 kernel, and the RealTek driver out of nonfree. It's so
annoying to have gotten a board thinking that I was avoiding the ATI/Nvidia
proprietary mess, only to have to deal with this ugly RealTek problem.
The straight Intel board may be a better choice for most. I needed the
RS-232 port, which is available with the Gigabyte board (external connector added)
but not (so far as I could determine) with the Intel board.
I'm getting a bit less than 1000 fps with glxgears on a 1920x1280 monitor
(DVI cable). With a moderate CPU load it's drawing around 50watts (not including
display) according to my KillAWatt - pretty darn good for a fairly spiffy desktop!
As Camaleon suggests, you may have to run a relatively new kernel to
get this relatively new system running.

Hope that helps...

-Frank


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From: Pasi Oja-Nisula on 22 Mar 2010 14:30
On 2010-03-22, Frank Miles <fpm(a)u.washington.edu> wrote:
> with the RealTek chip, but as of now it's running fine - running the
> Debian/testing (squeeze) with the 2.26.32 kernel, and the RealTek
> driver out of nonfree.

I got the same kernel from backports and the network chip started to
work. I'm still using old 3com pci card though.

Haven't had time to check the audio yet. I think it's also Realtek
something. You got it working?

> The straight Intel board may be a better choice for most.

I thought about that, but maybe Gigabyte had more pci slots or something
that I thought that I would need in the future.

> I needed the RS-232 port, which is available with the Gigabyte board
> (external connector added)

I got the connector from ebay. It was a nice surprise that the board
actually had that, since I thought I would have to get a pci card with
serial ports.

> I'm getting a bit less than 1000 fps with glxgears on a 1920x1280
> monitor (DVI cable).

Is this with intel driver? Did you have to compile the driver yourself?
All the necessary requirements in testing yet?

> With a moderate CPU load it's drawing around 50watts (not including
> display) according to my KillAWatt - pretty darn good for a fairly
> spiffy desktop!

Besides, it's easy to cool. And because of that it's easy to get a
really quiet machine.

Pasi


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