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

[Jeff Vian <jvian@xxxxxxxxxx>]

RedHat 7.0 will detect it and run properly on install.


----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Holmes <maholmes@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <linux-help@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, December 25, 2000 3:15 AM
Subject: [linux-help] Re: Intel 82810 video chip set.


>
> 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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