No graphics on Ubuntu/Dell Latitude D510?

[Gobelet]

Hello,

I have troubles running X (well I guess) on my Dell Latitude D510. The Windows driver says there's a i910/i915 chip in it. The problem seems hard to troubleshoot: Gnome starts, everything seems to work, but the screen remains off. No display but X running. I can access the consoles however.

Anyone knows how to start it? I think others distrib can make it work, I already used a copy of Auditor in it without any problems...

Thanks in advance!

Vince.

[Entangledphoton]

small problem I've seen in ubuntu myself before.

I'd boot in recovery mode and run the command

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

and set it up for your hardware, then reboot and you shood be fine.

If not, manually edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file to match your hardware.

(you may have to try the i810 chipset driver if no i910 one exists)

Good luck

[Gobelet]

Okay I just player with my xorg.conf file, and found it tried to use the i810 driver. I thought it would work, since a lot of people use this instead of a proper i910/i915 driver... Instead of that I put "vesa", saved, rebooted, problem solved. That was strange, but it all works now. Thanks for the advice anyway!