I have 8 brand new Dell 4500s and I got the same problem. I wrestled with this a great deal, found a little patch on the internet and attempted to patch the rpm. The results are here:
http://www.ieee.uh.edu/xcomputerman/XFree86-i845G-fix/ It is still fairly unstable and probably needs more work, but what the patch did succeed in doing is to overcome the "1024K stolen memory" thing (I really, really detest that chip, btw) so you can get up to 1024x768. Funny thing is, Intel's website says the vesa driver should work, but it does not. I also had IDE problems...especially with the system seizing intermittently during hard disk writes, and an indication that the system was unable to turn on DMA. Ibukun On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 15:08, Ray Carlino wrote: > I am having same problem with Dell 4500 machines. > Is there a fix yet??????????? > I have heard maybe 2.4.20 kernel fixes this problem. > > > Hi all > > I've got a problem with my Intel I845G chipset (Asus motherboard). > I reported this bug in the middle of september. The patch > > When the system boots I recieve the errors found in "lines from > /var/dmesg". > > In that case it is impossible to activate the dma mode for my ide > harddrive. The problem is that I need this performance for burning > cdroms or watching dvds. > > I also tried the patch that I found in another message in this > mailinglist, but the same result. > > It would be great if someone may help me.. > > Philipp Haefelfinger > > ---- uname -r ---- > 2.4.19-16mdk > ---- end --- > > ---- lines from /var/dmesg ---- > Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 > ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with > idebus=xx > PCI: Device 00:1f.1 not available because of resource collisions > PCI_IDE: (ide_setup_pci_device:) Could not enable device. > ---- end ------ > > ---- lspcidrake ----- > agpgart : Intel Corporation|82845 845 Chipset Host Bridge (MCH) > [BRIDGE_HOST] (vendor:8086 device:2560 subv:1043 subd:8093) > unknown : Intel Corp.|82845G/GL [Brookdale-G] Chipset AGP Bridge > [BRIDGE_PCI] (vendor:8086 device:2561) > usb-uhci : Intel Corporation|82801DB USB Controller [SERIAL_USB] > (vendor:8086 device:24c2 subv:1043 subd:8089) > usb-uhci : Intel Corporation|82801DB USB Controller [SERIAL_USB] > (vendor:8086 device:24c4 subv:1043 subd:8089) > usb-uhci : Intel Corporation|82801DB USB Controller [SERIAL_USB] > (vendor:8086 device:24c7 subv:1043 subd:8089) > ehci-hcd : Intel Corporation|82801DB USB Enhanced Controller > [SERIAL_USB] (vendor:8086 device:24cd subv:1043 subd:8089) > unknown : Intel Corporation|82820 815e (Camino 2) Chipset PCI > [BRIDGE_PCI] (vendor:8086 device:244e) > unknown : Intel Corporation|82801DB 845G/GL Chipset ISA Bridge > (ICH4) [BRIDGE_ISA] (vendor:8086 device:24c0) > unknown : Intel Corporation|82801DB 845G/GL Chipset IDE > Controller [STORAGE_IDE] (vendor:8086 device:24cb subv:1043 subd:8089) > Card:NVIDIA GeForce (fbdev): NVidia|NV25 [GeForce4 Ti4600] [DISPLAY_VGA] > (vendor:10de device:0250 subv:1043 subd:8013) > eepro100 : Intel Corporation|EtherExpress PRO/100 > [NETWORK_ETHERNET] (vendor:8086 device:103a subv:1043 subd:8071) > snd-emu10k1 : Creative Labs|SB Live! (audio) [MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO] > (vendor:1102 device:0002 subv:1102 subd:8064) > emu10k1-gp : Creative Labs|SB Live! (joystick) [INPUT_OTHER] > (vendor:1102 device:7002 subv:1102 subd:0020) > bttv : Brooktree Corporation|Bt848 TV with DMA push > [MULTIMEDIA_VIDEO] (vendor:109e device:0350) > unknown : Virtual|Hub [] (vendor:0000 device:0000) > unknown : Virtual|Hub [] (vendor:0000 device:0000) > unknown : Virtual|Hub [] (vendor:0000 device:0000) > unknown : Virtual|Hub [] (vendor:0000 device:0000) > ---- end ---- > > > > > > > -- | /*\ Ibukun Olumuyiwa | \ / Join the ASCII Ribbon Campaign http://www.xcomputerman.com | X against HTML mail today! | / \
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