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[Heikki Wilenius <heikki.wilenius@xxxxxx>]

Thanks for your help Rutger, now both of my video modes work! Some
notes below for the benefit of others who might be grappling with
similar problems. I'll do a write-up later in my blog and link it to
the Z-series wiki.

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Rutger Hendriks
<rutgerhendriks@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> What seemed to help for me in that case is reinstall the intel part...
> I'm not sure, but I think reinstalling the intel part:
> apt-get --reinstall install xserver-xorg-video-intel (and maybe also
> mesa-utils?)

This alone didn't do the trick, but I tried to re-install the mesa-glx
and mesa-dri libraries as well along with xorg-core. This helped
before with 11.04, so I thought it might work:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall xserver-xorg-video-intel
libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-dri xserver-xorg-core

This, however, produced the mysterious error message "E: Internal
Error, No file name for libgl1-mesa-glx". It's a bug of Ubuntu 11.10:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/859188. A
workaround suggested by Sal Mazzola in the Launchpad discussion linked
above is to download the mesa libraries manually and override the new
architecture-dependent package system:

apt-get download libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-dri
dpkg --install libgl1-mesa-*.deb

I also did a “sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg” in the end, I don't
know if this is a necessary step or not...

Now, both video modes seem to work properly, they booted on the first try. Yay!

> With regard to the nvidia-current / nvidia-current-updates that
> ofcourse depends on which package you installed...
> nvidia-current-updates is what I installed

Yes, what I meant was that I tried the nvidia-current-updates package
first, and I couldn't get the Nvidia mode to work, so I switched to
the nvidia-current package.

>> Also, resuming from suspend does not work on the Nvidia side, except
>> if I drop to console first (Ctrl+Alt+F1) before doing suspend (sudo
>> pm-suspend), and when waking up quickly switch back to X with Alt+F7.
>> It's a pain, but better than rebooting. =)
>
> Ah, nice workaround ;-)

Thanks. =) One more thing regarding resuming from suspend in Nvidia.
Sometimes the trick above does not work, but I realised today that if
I switch a couple of times between the console and X, in the end, the
screen wakes up! It took me about 5 tries. Annoying, but better than
losing your work or open windows.

Cheers,
Heikki