On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 12:16:30PM +0100, Cajus Pollmeier wrote: > > > > 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. >
I use linux kernel 2.4.0-test10 with Debian 2.2r2 and agpgart module is an option in kernel. I compiled it statically into kernel (I had problems with module) and everything works very good with standard svga server. Naturally all on Dell OptiPlex GX110. -- o------------------o ___ |Leszek Gerwatowski| _/_|_\ o------------------o (o\__/o)=))))))))))))) "Don't fix it if it isn't broken"
