[linux-help] Re: Intel 82810 video chip set.

["Michael Holmes" <maholmes@xxxxxxxxxx>]

OKay, it is a 82810 set, How do I find the module, do I load it with an add
module,  or do I make the Kernel?  Where do I find the module?

Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg House" <ghouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <linux-help@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2000 10:13 AM
Subject: [linux-help] Re: Intel 82810 video chip set.


>
> On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, you wrote:
> >I cannot get red had, mandrake, nor debian to start my x windows server.
I
> >can get vga16 to sorta run (crashes about every 2nd to 3rd time) */cannot
> >connect xsocket:err 111/* > I sat down with XF86Setup and walked through
each
> >and every driver in there.  I keep getting unkown chipset.  When SVGA
server
> >does start, it is a 320 x 240 display.  Right now I have a fully
functional
> >Debian potato running, but it also cannot start x windows.  Last night I
had
> >debian, red hat, mandrake, slackware, turbo linux, bsd, and something
else.  I
> >spent from 3pm to 6am this morning.  Nothing is new enough to find the
chip and
> >recognize it.  I have been to xfree86.org, red hat, bsd, gnome.org
Nothing out
> >there can find my video chips.  Is my video card going to go the way of
my
> >modem?
>
> If it's really an i810 (not i815) chipset, you can run it with RedHat 6.2.
> XFree86 3.3.6 supports the chipset, but it requires an additional kernel
module
> (agpgart) to allocate system memory for video use. RedHat neglected to
include
> that module in 6.2, but you can get it if you upgrade to the 2.2.16-3
kernel
> available from RedHat's updates/errata website. They also have
instructions for
> doing this on the website, but it's a little hard to find.
>
> Now, if it's an i815, that won't work. Based on my experience with these
> chipsets, what you're describing is what one gets with the i815 video
chipset.
> I'm not sure it identifies itself explicitly as an i815, but it functions
> differently then the i810 even if it calls itself "i810". To get the i815
> chipset, you have to get a replacement XF86_SVGA server and agpgart module
from
> Intel. It's available under support.intel.com, look for i810 (strangely
enough
> it doens't SAY 815 on the search stuff, but in the documentation it does,
> weird). Anyway, this is available in either RPM or source form and will
get you
> a functioning XF86 setup using XF86 3.3.6. The documentation says it
doesn't
> work on newer versions of XF86, I didn't try it.
>
> Greg
>
>
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