Ass. Wr. Wb.

Edgy eft has been released for quite some time and thanks for the guys from the gathering i got my self a edubuntu 6.10 at first i was realy hyped and with great expectation I installed it right away on my Orange, but the this buggy release realy starts to annoy me with freezing Xwindows and crashing applets on Gnome, at the point where i was going to return to the good old Dapper i remember a phrase that my best friend used to say : “No body likes a quiter!”. So I decided to stick with Edgy and try to solve problems one at a time! Coz this is what open source is all about.. solving problem’s and sharing it with others And to the first problem that i solve is the freezin X and with this problem gone my life with edgy became stable, fast & beautifull (Thanx to beryl )

The other reason why i wrote this how to is because there’s no explaination on the unofficial ubuntu guide on installing a i945GM graphic controller, but there is nothing new in this howto, coz on that guide there’s a good howto on installing a 1915, and this guide is actualy based on that howto

First download the i945GM driver from :

http://downloadmirror.intel.com/df-support/9726/eng/dri-Intel-3.4.3006-20051209.i386.rpm

This driver was originaly made for SUSE 10 that is why it is in binary RPM form, but that’s okay with a little bit of magic called alien the RPM turns into a Debian Package!

Go to the folder where u put the rpm file then do the alien :
#sudo alien dri-Intel-3.4.3006-20051209.i386.rpm

Last thing to do :
#sudo dpkg -i dri-Intel-3.4.3006-20051209.i386.deb

Reboot and Thats it!!! On my Orange this installation works like a charm.. right after the reboot my screen resolution has been auto adjusted to 1280 x 800 and the wide screen now look crystal clear with no smudge like distortion like it used to have without the intel driver and 1024 x 768 resolution.

And with this driver installed installing beryl became posible, but i’ll discuss that later.. Enjoy!

Ah, almost forgot.. don’t bother to instal AIGLX coz its already embeded in edgy.. CMIIW…

Wassalam

Maaf bahasa inggris.. ini dari blog gwe di yogharp.wordpress.com, soalnya dah janaji ama istri untuk mengisinya dengan bahasa inggris buat sekalian belajar

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