Gutsy and the new Intel Video Driver

For those of us with Intel Onboard Graphics, that used Feisty you probably used the “i810″ driver for your Graphic needs and probably also needed 915Resolution to fix your resolution problems. I have found that with Gutsy and the New X Server, Intel has a nicer new driver that will work much better and even detected my 1440×900 Resolution without using a special program to set it! First make a backup of your xorg.conf file by typing the following, then reconfigure your XServer

sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf_backup810
 
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

When it ask’s for your driver, try the Intel driver instead of the “i810″ driver that you used to use. Now restart your X Server with Control-Alt-Delete and if you have problems rebooting then you can always restore the backup from terminal by typing

sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf_backup810 /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Then reboot and everything will be back to normal!