Getting X to work in Dell OptiPlex

[Kelvin Chow <kelvinchow@wharfholdings.com>]

Dear all,

For the past few days, I've been trying to get Debian (Potato) installed in 
my work machine.  After sorting out the trouble with partitioning and in 
the end installed the system, I am now faced with a new problem -- setting 
up X.

The Dell OptiPlex GX110 is using i810e chipset.  I think it's best to 
describe what I went through.

1.  Initially I accessed the Intel site to see if they have the module for 
downloading.  Unfortunately, they only have the rpm package, and running 
alien and installing from them didn't seem to work.

2.  My search then took me to X strike force.  However, the site has been 
down for the past 24hrs.  I was able to use Google's cached services to 
view the site, and I noticed that they have tgz file on the 
module.  Unfortunately, the site was down and there's no access to the file.

3.  I was then pointed to utah-glx web site.  This time I was able to get a 
patch for kernel 2.2.16.  I'm using kernel 2.2.17 prerelease version, but I 
figure it doesn't matter.  I managed in the end to compile the code and 
activated the agpgart module using modconf.  I kept questioning myself 
whether I should be patching the kernel since the agpgart is for kernel 2.216.

4.  I then went through XF86Setup and xf86config trying to see if there's 
an option for i810.  However, there's no such hardware list in the 
configuration files.

5.  I then type "locate i810" and I found that XFCom_i810 is indeed 
installed in my system.  I figure that it's just a matter of telling X 
configuration tools that I have this sort of driver.

6.  I did some modification on /etc/X11/XF86Config hoping that it would get 
things working, but I cannot get X to run.

Now, has anyone have similar experience?  How did you configure X?

Grateful for any pointers.

Regards.

Kelvin