Hello I had no problem to install 8.0 and 8.1 on my celeron too. The video card i810e gave some trouble as far as multiple sessions were required. It didn't work at on 8.0 but works on 8.1 (one has to change XF86Config though) without DRI.
I have tried to install fbdev developed by Antonino Daplas (nice guy!) but it didn't work out as the mandrake kernel didn't accept the patches very well. I am now running kernel2.17mdk that comes with a patch for i810fbdev but I didn't figure out how to enable it. dmesg | grep framebuffer doesn't show a thing which means that framebuffer is not there. At least multiple sessions work with the normal i810.o drive. Not in the conventional way but it works. startx --:1 vt 08 didn't work but startx -- :1.0 does. Why? I hope that 8.2 allows me to have framebuffer on my intel 810e. Ed ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Badran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 10:27 PM Subject: Re: [expert] mandrake 8.2 > > > What fixes would they be? The fastest, smoothest Mandrake install I've ever > > done was on my wife's Celeron 700 with i810 board with onboard sound, > > graphics and network That was Mdk8.1 tacked onto the second half of an 19Gb > > hard drive that already had M$ 98 on it. Everything was recognised and > > configured correctly without any intervention by me. > > > Some boards with the i810 chipset have a few problems, i think this > includes a series of dell laptops also. The problems are with the > onboard graphics, some machines cant use the fbdev based install, and > some hang when changing modes in X, i.e when testing resolution > settings. There is now a modified install routine specifically for this > chipset i believe. > > I must say that is a very lucky install. Some people have had no end of > trouble with mdk 8.1 (and possibly 8.0, i forget) on the i810 boards. > When mdk 8.2/9 comes out, you should try the new installer and see if it > doesnt cause any unforseen problems with that board. For more info on > this i would recomend you talk to some of the guys on the cooker list. > > Tom > > -- > Tom "Tomahawk" Badran > Imperial College, Department of Computing > ----------------------------------------- > PGP Public @ certserver.pgp.com > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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