Fabrice Lorrain (home) wrote:
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> I'm stumped, any ideas?
Yep,
- First check your BIOS and set it for more than 1Mo of AGP-RAM.
- You might get some results with a recent kernel, intel's drivers (from
http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/intel845g/) and framebuffer (in
septembre, we were able to get X running with such a setup. But swapping
to text console was crashing it, and on the whole the config was pretty
unstable).
- As explain at http://www.xfree86.org/~dawes/845driver.html. I845G
chipset is only supported with Xfree86-4.3... and zgreping
/usr/share/doc/xserver-xfree86/changelog.Debian.gz on "intel" and "i8"
does confirm it (debian unstable box with xserver-xfree86-4.2.1-14).
To get Xfree-4.3 on your sarge box, you can either point apt to the
current packages in experimental, or find a backport to sarge/testing,
or backporting it your self.
@+,
Fab
Thanks for your reply, I'll give XF 4.3.0 from experimental a try...
I think you're right about the video RAM, because I tried booting with
the latest Knoppix 3.3 (incl.XF 4.3.0) which correctly loaded the i810
driver but could only deliver VGA resolution. I also found a comment on
Intel's download site that said to restrict colour depth to 16 (not 24).
Luckily, I have a few days off to try all of this out.
Regards,
--
H.A.J. Koster
Satisfied user of Debian GNU/Linux, LaTeX and Lucida Bright...
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