Hi
More good news for i810 victims.
According to Alan Cox (http://www.linux.org.uk/diary/ look at the 18. of
April 2000 entry) the kernel module that's needed for i810 will be part of
the upcoming 2.2.15 kernel release.
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Kristian Elof Soerensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] (+45) 45 93 92 02
On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Kristian Soerensen wrote:
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> Hi
>
> The i810 graphics chipset uses a part of your machines ordinary RAM for
> framebuffer etc. where traditional graphics chipsets has their own RAM.
>
> To get this working under Linux you will have to patch the kernel witht
> he agpgart.o module as described in http://www.xfree86.org/4.0/i810.html
> the XFree86 documentation.
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> Kristian Elof Soerensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] (+45) 45 93 92 02
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> On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Hoang Manh Hung wrote:
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> > Hi,
> >
> > Thanks for your helpful ideas.
> > I had installed sucessfully RH61 on IBM 300GL (VGA card: intergrated
> > Intel i810 chipset) machine by bootup directly from CDROM.
> > I though the errors occured when ran \dosutils\autoboot.bat
> > is inside loadlin.exe file. It's rather old (timestamp 1996).
> >
> > But now Im trying to install XWindows on it and failed.
> > I downloaded the software from www.intel.com and did as they said
> > and there were a lot of error messages:
> >
> > SVGA: PCI: Intel Unknown chipset (0x7123) rev 2, Memory @
> > 0xf8000000, 0xfea80000
> > SVGA: video ram 64k
> > ...
> >
> >
> > Any help?
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