> Hi, > > I am trying to install linux on my system which already has Windows 98. > I got linux installed (not the X Window) but it doesnt recognize my > video card. I have a Intel 810 motherboard with integrated sound and > video card. I found this link
sound card your on your own there i haven't used an i810 board with i810 audio(didn't know there was such a thing). i setup several i810(Dell GX110) systems at my previous job, and it was a pain at first but once i got the hang of it, it was easy. I hear Xfree86 4.x is easier to get working with i810 but i don't use that i use Xfree 3.3.6. anyways. what i did was download the source of xfree86 3.3.6 from ftp.xfree86.org. extract it, and find the agpgart module hidden in the source tree (find . -name "agp*") and compile it for your kernel, typically just cd to that directory and type 'make'. this requires kernel source/headers to be installed as well. provided that is successful copy that module to /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc or something, thats the place i usually put it. then, modprobe agpgart the module should load then configure X with xf86config(i dont think i810 worked with XF86Setup i don't remember though). be sure to have XF86_SVGA installed, it is in the xserver-svga package. all should be well. put agpgart in /etc/modules and next time you reboot it will load automatically. there are many versions of agpgart, at the time, with my testing only one of them worked(i tried about 4 different ones), and that is the one included with xfree86 3.3.6 source. there are drivers on intel's site that may make the process easier, but i try to limit the amount of 3rd party stuff i install, in this case it is just 1 kernel module(1 file) i also tried getting GLX working at the time(almost a year ago) and was not very successful. i really learned to hate the i810 video chip. we eventually replaced those cards with voodoo3 3000 pci..much better!@ good luck. nate
