Alvin, Ta much. It worked in the end. I compiled the experimental Agp driver as per your suggestion and it works with potato's SVGA server.
tomas > > hi tomas > > easiest way to get X11 working on the asus mboard > with onboard svga ( i assume ) > > http://www.Linux-1U.net/MotherBoard/Intel.X11.Patches/ > ( go to the original intel site for the files too ) > > get the agp driver > I810Gtt-0.2-4.src.rpm > > get the X server > XFCom_i810-1.2-3.i386.rpm > > http://www.Linux-1U.net/MotherBoard/Intel.X11.Patches/Intel.X11.patch.debian .txt > > if all that works... it should be about 5 min to get X11 working... > - than you might also have to install gnome/kde if you like those > window managers > > > c ya > alvin > > > On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, tomas kral wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I have i810 chipset on an asus m-board. > > After having read almost all available read about i810 vs XF86_SVGA, I am stuck not able to get past the following.. > > > > XFree86 Version 3.3.6 / X Window System > > .. > > (--) SVGA: PCI: Intel Unknown chipset (0x7121) rev 3, Memory @ 0xe4000000, 0xe3800000 > > (--) SVGA: error doing ioctl(GARTIOCINFO): Invalid argument > > Fatal server error: > > Aborting > > > > while agpgart.o module gets loaded while it says.. > > Oct 18 16:41:46 debie kernel: Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann > > Oct 18 16:41:46 debie kernel: agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 202M > > Oct 18 16:41:46 debie kernel: agpgart: Detected an Intel i810 Chipset. > > Oct 18 16:41:46 debie kernel: agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe4000000 > > > > I am on 2.2.19pre17 as packaged in potato dist. > > > > Your help is greatly appreciated. > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > www.perfect-system.cz > > > >
