Vista gets vertical on the Q1

By Kevin C. Tofel | Monday, October 16, 2006 | 4:05 PM CT | 15 comments | Tweet This

It takes some effort, but forcing the latest Intel graphics driver nets you screen rotation. The trick is to download the ZIP file and not the executable. Note: the latest driver for the 900 GMA chips (6.14.10.4704) is not a WDDM driver, which is the last obstacle before I see Aero Glass. If Intel doesn’t release a WDDM driver, a ton of folks that recently purchased notebooks will be none too happy.

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Comments (15)

Mobilty Today is reporting that Microsoft had Vista up and running on a stock Samsung Q1 WITH glass working. Samsung also informed them that they have completed a tweaked build of Vista for the Q1 and should be releasing it 1st qtr of ‘07.

http://mobilitytoday.com/news/007075/samsung_q1_vista

Jared — 10:54 AM on October 16, 2006 Reply
There’s one difference between Microsoft and me (actually, there’s thousands, but only one that’s relevent): they likely have access to Intel drivers that I don’t have. Still, this news bodes well as it would mean a WDDM driver coming from Intel for this graphics chipset.

Kevin C. Tofel — 11:00 AM on October 16, 2006 Reply
I had Areo Glass working on the tc1100 running a very early Vista build. Even thought the nVidia driver was not WDDM it ran glass fine:

http://jkontherun.blogs.com/jkontherun/2005/09/windows_vista_a.html

jk — 11:40 AM on October 16, 2006 Reply
Which driver from where Kevin?

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Paul O'Brien — 10:40 PM on October 16, 2006 Reply
Which driver from where Kevin?

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Paul O'Brien — 10:40 PM on October 16, 2006 Reply
Which driver from where Kevin?

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Paul O'Brien — 10:40 PM on October 16, 2006 Reply
Which driver from where Kevin?

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Paul O'Brien — 10:40 PM on October 16, 2006 Reply
Which driver from where Kevin?

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Paul O'Brien — 10:40 PM on October 16, 2006 Reply
Paul, hit up the Intel product page here: http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/intel915g/index.htm You’ll find links to the latest driver (which Intel calls it PV 14.25) which you can download. Don’t download the .exe that installs the driver because the installation isn’t supported on Vista. Instead, grab the Zip file and extract it somewhere on your Q1. Update the driver in Device Manager but then browse for the driver. Look in the extracted folder for a Graphics subfolder and use igxp32.inf for the driver file.

Kevin C. Tofel — 12:38 AM on October 17, 2006 Reply
Thanks Kevin

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Paul O'Brien — 3:02 AM on October 17, 2006 Reply
Thanks Kevin

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Paul O'Brien — 3:02 AM on October 17, 2006 Reply
Thanks Kevin

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Paul O'Brien — 3:02 AM on October 17, 2006 Reply
Thanks Kevin

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Paul O'Brien — 3:02 AM on October 17, 2006 Reply
Thanks Kevin

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Paul O'Brien — 3:02 AM on October 17, 2006 Reply
Quick Question.

Ive been looking at the different Q1’s on ebay. Which model do you have and which one would you recommend ?

Russ Dyer — 1:25 PM on October 8, 2008 Reply