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amits
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 Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2002 5:14 am Post subject: Intel Extreme Graphics: X Configuration problem |
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I have Intel 845 GLAD motherboard. It has got an onboard graphics card,
Intel Extreme Graphics. I could not configure my X. Infact I don't know which driver to select from the list. It seems that none of them match the
card I have. While, according to the Intel people they have provided it's driver to the xfree86..
can anyone help me out. I am using Gentoo Linux with KDE 3.0.3
thanks in advance,
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pjp
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| Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2002 5:42 am Post subject: |
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I found this page at Intel. Is that relevant to your system? Also, the Support page at xfree86.org has a link "Intel 830/845G Driver". That link contains this: "Reworking the Intel 830 and 845G driver support". Does that help any?
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MoonWalker
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| Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2002 3:58 am Post subject: |
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I have similar problem with an ABIT BG7 Motherbord and 845G onboard graphic chip. "XFree86 -configure" gives me:
"Fatal server error:
XFree86 has found a valid card configuration.
Unfortunately the appropriate data has not been added to xf86PciInfo.h.
Please forward 'scanpci -v' output to XFree86 support team.
| kanuslupus wrote: | | Also, the Support page at xfree86.org has a link "Intel 830/845G Driver". That link contains this: "Reworking the Intel 830 and 845G driver support". Does that help any? |
In short this page say additional work on 830/845G drivers have been comited to cvs and support for 830/845G will be included from XFree 4.3 but no idea of how far away that release is. So the only way for us to get X server running now seam to be go out and buy a supported card.
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Cid Highwind
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| Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2002 8:17 pm Post subject: |
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| MoonWalker wrote: |
In short this page say additional work on 830/845G drivers have been comited to cvs and support for 830/845G will be included from XFree 4.3 but no idea of how far away that release is. So the only way for us to get X server running now seam to be go out and buy a supported card. |
Have you tried building the CVS version of Xfree? I never have, so I have no idea how stable it is, but you might try it before you go out and buy a new card. See http://www.xfree86.org/cvs/ for the info. |
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pjp
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| Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2002 11:56 pm Post subject: |
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Also, I thought I read in one of the links I posted that 'vesa' may work. It does... the first link in my post. | Quote: | If your version of Linux* does not support the Intel 845G/GL chipset, the VESA driver that comes with XFree86* can be used. To use the VESA driver, modify the XF86Config-4 file and change the driver line to:
Driver "vesa" |
*shrug* may not do much, but its there.
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MoonWalker
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| Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2002 1:28 am Post subject: |
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| Cid Highwind wrote: | | Have you tried building the CVS version of Xfree? I never have, so I have no idea how stable it is, but you might try it before you go out and buy a new card. |
No, I have not tried to build the cvs version, it's to much fuzz for me as I know to little about how to integrate it with an ebuild... The onboard graphic isn't so impressive anyway so I have ordered a Geoforce4 card.
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