[geeks] Ubuntu on Intel graphics

[Jonathan Groll]

On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 06:46:51PM -0500, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> Lionel Peterson wrote:
>> On Mar 7, 2010, at 1:15 AM, "Joshua D. Boyd" <jdboyd at jdboyd.net> wrote:
>>
>>> However, when I say working, it only works in VESA mode.  It seems  
>>> that the Intel driver in 9.10 won't work with this.  The Intel driver 
>>> that will work with this requires a newer kernel, so it won't really  
>>> be properly supported until Ubuntu 10.04.  Sigh.

Well, I guess you could try installing a 10.04 kernel package - the
kernel package shouldn't have dependencies. Have you tried? 

There is a kernel PPA repo:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/

Cheers,
Jonathan