Update: Checking the XF86Config file the Intel 810
device is still specified. So, for this motherboard / BIOS combination the
redhat-config-xfree86 command does not seem
to be able to see the PCI card even though it is selected in the BIOS. I
created the config file manually using the xf86config utility and now have it
working.
Thanks for your
assistance.
Stephen Wolfcale
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 08:24
PM
Subject: Re: [XFree86] Dell 2350 with ATI
Xpert 128 PCI
I tried running "redhat-config-xfree86 --reconfig" but results were exactly the
same. The BIOS is set to select the PCI card.
Thanks,
Stephen Wolfcale
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 03:46
AM
Subject: Re: [XFree86] Dell 2350 with
ATI Xpert 128 PCI
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Stephen Wolfcale wrote:
>I
have a new Dell 2350 with integrated Intel 845 G/GL Video and
>RH
8.0. After checking various newsgroups and help sites,
the
>consensus seemed to be that the BIOS video RAM setting must
be
>increased from the default 1 MB before Xfree 4.2.x.x will
work.
Intel i845 is completely unsupported in Red Hat Linux
8.0. You
require CVS XFree86 for this to work.
>However,
Dell does not provide that option in the BIOS. Dell
>did
recently release a BIOS upgrade which allows a PCI card to
>be used so
I have upgraded the BIOS and installed a ATI Xpert
>128 PCI video
card. The card detects correctly but I get
the
>error:
>
>Couldn't start X server,
etc.
>*ddcprobe returns bogus values:
>ID: none
>Name:
none
>etc.
>
>and finally,
>
>Error, cannot
start X server.
>
>I notice that if I reload the box from
scratch it still tries to
>probe the integrated video chip and I
wonder if this error is
>related to it probing the wrong
device?
>
>If someone can tell me what to vi I would be very
grateful--I
>have been working on this box since Christmas!
All
ATI Rage 128 hardware should work out of the box. Just
run:
redhat-config-xfree86 --reconfig
Assuming you've disabled
the onboard video, it should just work
without fuss.
Hope this
helps,
TTYL
--
Mike A.
Harris
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