Am Samstag, 9. Dezember 2000 06:15 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Well, despite the risk of being screamed at from the prestigious: > > Center for the Study of Brain, Mind, and Behavior > > at Princeton, I'd still like to gather courage and ask a question. > > I helped a colleague this afternoon install 2.2r2 on his new Dell > Optiplex GX110. The installation went very smoothly indeed. I hadn't > done an install from scratch with potato, and I was really impressed. > > The problem, though, is getting X working. This is a known issue, I > think. These machines seem to have Intel i810 video cards, which > are not successfully autodetected by anXious. > > I've looked around on the web and found some information, but nothing > specific to Debian. If I understand correctly, these cards need a > kernel module called `agpgart' and they need the SVGA server. > > But I also gather that Intel has released their own version of > agpgart.o as well as their own X server for the i810 chipset > (XFCom_810). The combination of these two is said to yield better > performance, and the instructions on the Intel web-site seem fairly > clear. > > But I thought I should check here before plunging in, to see if > anybody has experience doing this on a Debian system, or if any of you > unfailingly kind and knowledgeable people had any advice or warnings > to offer.
I'm using the agpgart package and the X-Server from Intels website for our X-terminals. This combinations works pretty good. The standard svga server is definitively slower and not that stable. -Cajus
