Re: graphic card problems

[Jacob Bresciani]

I had a lot of problems with i810 video cards (intel graphics 
extreme2's in particular). I ended up add the i810 framebuffer to the 
kernel, setting "vga=791" in lilo.conf and using fbdev as the video 
driver in XF86Config.

if it's an integrated card you may also need to allocate more memory to 
the card in the system bios. My IBM Thinkcentre's were set to only 1Meg 
video memory by default, not enough for 1024x768 at 16/24bit color

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Jacob Bresciani
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University of Alberta
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On 13-May-04, at 11:58 AM, Kent West wrote:


Thanks for all the surggestions, I have tried adding agpgart but there
was not change. Now the first error message is
(EE) I810: Given depth (1) is not supported by i810 driver

I have played around with the colour depths, evening setting to 1 
didn't
change this situation.

Did you play with these settings by running "dpkg-reconfigure 
xserver-xfree86", or by editing the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file by 
hand, or how? If you edited the file by hand at any time, later runs 
of the "dpkg-reconfigure" command will no longer affect the file, 
without notice, if I remember correctly.

After running dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 I have noticed that 
there
isn't a XF86Config file in /etc/X11 there is only XF86Config-4 with a
load of other stuff. Should I have a XF86Config as well as 
XF86Config-4?

The older version of X (v. 3.x) used XF86Config; the newer v4 version 
uses the XF86Config-4 file. A depth of 1 is too low for the i810 
driver; I'd try 8, 15, 16, and 24. I'd also try playing with the 
resolution lines, removing anything over 800x600 for testing purposes.

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