help installing intel video driver

[mrhandy65]

i have installed everything from ubuntu, to slack, fedora, and nothing will give me a full sccreen display. i have a sony vaio vgc-js210j. its a dual core 2.5ghz. i have debian x64 install currently. how can i get the display to be fullscreen? i have the driver for the video card, but i dont know to install it.

here is my config if it helps out:

# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

[mrhandy65]

i tryied to install the video driver since i cant get fullscreen with my G45 chipset. i dont know that much about linux, but when i did ./configure i got :

configure: error: Package requirements (xorg-server >= 1.6 xproto fontsproto xineramaproto randrproto renderproto xextproto x11 xextproto) were not met:

Requested 'xorg-server >= 1.6' but version of xorg-server is 1.4.2

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables XORG_CFLAGS
and XORG_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.

c-98-229-148-4:/intel# make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
c-98-229-148-4:/intel#


how do i install this thinng. or is there a distro that will support the video on this chipset without installing a driver? how do i just do make install, its there some flag that i can type? been dealing with this for days, someone help me...please... thank you

[GNU-Fan]

how do i install this thinng. or is there a distro that will support the video on this chipset without installing a driver? how do i just do make install, its there some flag that i can type? been dealing with this for days, someone help me...please... thank you

The problem is that the driver you want to build is made for the Xorg version 1.6 and above. Debian Lenny uses 1.4.2.

You could theoretically install a more current version of X11 manually, but this is an insane amount of work. You don't want to do this.

Easier it would be to upgrade to Debian Testing -- the version of Debian to become the next stable release. It has version 1.6.3 of XOrg.
See The Debian GNU/Linux FAQ - Choosing a Debian distribution
point 3.1.11.

[devils casper]

Post the ouput of this

su -
/sbin/lspci | grep -i vga

[mrhandy65]

c-98-229-148-4:~# /sbin/lspci | grep -i vga
bash: /sbin/lspci: No such file or directory

[mrhandy65]

im DLing the testing release now, seeing what i can do. i got work in 2 hours lets see if i can do this first.

[mrhandy65]

i didnt have any luck installing the testing version. i DLed all 4.4gb, of the DVD, but when i try to install it, it crashes, even the non graphic and expert mode... any suggestions now?

[GNU-Fan]

I see that Ubuntu Jaunty ships with XOrg 1.6 as well.
Ubuntu -- Details of package xserver-xorg-core in jaunty

But default version of the Intel driver doesn't have support for G45 yet.
Ubuntu -- Details of package xserver-xorg-video-intel in jaunty

So you would have to build it on your own, again.
At least this is what I understand. I don't know which version of xserver-xorg-video-intel was the first to support G45.