Issue with Intel Mobile 945GSE Express Integrated Graphics

[sblair86]

I’m trying to run your live 32 bit 3.5 openbox usb image on a asus eee pc 1000ha with a intel i915 graphics chip. When the live cd tries to startx it failed because no screen was detected. Here is the output of lspci -vvv from my ubuntu install.

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00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GSE Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8340
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 0
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
        Region 0: Memory at f7f00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
        Region 1: I/O ports at dc00 [size=8]
        Region 2: Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
        Region 3: Memory at f7ec0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
        Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: i915

[descasa]

Seems to be a fairly common problem. Modify your /etc/X11/xorg.conf as follows:

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Section "Device"
         Driver      "vesa"

Then startx.

The install, should you try it, should use the vesa driver but just in case your real graphics card insists on inserting itself in xorg.conf, you can go in and comment out the lines for your graphics card and just use the vesa driver.