Onboard Graphics

This notebook sports a compact 1024x768 10,4" screen and an onboard Intel graphics chip:

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM \
Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)

The Intel chip is supported by the OSS Intel driver from Xorg and worked right from the get-go. After adding myself to the "video" group, even the 3D acceleration worked.

But don't get your hopes up. This is not a gaming machine, it can barely handle compiz-fusion.

Here is my xorg.conf entry for the card:

Section "Device"
	Identifier 	"Configured Video Device"
	Driver		"intel"
# Make compiz-fusion useable:
#	Option		"AccelMethod" "EXA"
	Option		"AccelMethod" "XAA"
	Option		"DRI" "true"
	Option 		"MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"
	Option		"ExaNoComposite" "false"
EndSection

Files of interest

• My xorg.conf
• Xorg.0.log
• The output of lspci